Publisher's Description
From MacSpeech:
MacSpeech Dictate provides a whole new way to interact with your Mac. Instead of typing, use your voice to input text; rather than clicking your mouse, just speak commands. With MacSpeech Dictate, it's easy. Amazing Accuracy: MacSpeech Dictate will astonish you with its accuracy. You simply talk and leave the recognition to MacSpeech Dictate. MacSpeech Dictate recognizes and understands 13 English language variations, nine with U.S. spelling and four with U.K. spelling. Minimal Training Required: MacSpeech Dictate provides astounding accuracy and productivity. With just minutes of training, you'll be using MacSpeech Dictate's superior capabilities. Essential Command Capabilities: Instead of using your mouse to select menu commands or your keyboard to type shortcuts, just speak a command. MacSpeech Dictate executes it for you. What's more, MacSpeech Dictate understands key commands. With the 'Press The Key' and 'Press The Key Combo' commands, you can enter specific keys and even keyboard modifiers like Command, Option, Shift, and Control. That makes you more productive and MacSpeech Dictate more intuitive. What could be better. Works With The Apps You Already Have: Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, QuarkXPress, and more. And MacSpeech Dictate works great with Apple's applications as well, including iChat, Mail, iPhoto, and Keynote, among others. Make Your Move: You don't need a keyboard or mouse to move around in your documents. MacSpeech Dictate lets you move your cursor forwards, backwards, and much more with just your voice. It helps make editing your documents a breeze. Spelling A World Of Words: MacSpeech Dictate's spelling mode lets you easily spell words, names, and acronyms with either natural language or the International Radio Alphabet. You have complete control over every aspect of your speech recognition input. Built Especially For The Mac: Mac users expect only the best from the applications they use on their Macs. MacSpeech Dictate was built from the ground up to ensure the ultimate experience on Mac OS X.
What's new in this version:
- Registration screen has been updated to allow for opt-in to email offers
- Volume licensing
- Supports GROWL notifications for Recognized Text
- Extended ASCII support
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All versions:
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Current version:
1.5 starsout of 2 votes
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"Macspeech Dictate 1.5.8 crashes, crashes, crashes"
Version: MacSpeech Dictate 1.5.9
Pros
Maybe it will be worth a poop in another 5 years.
Cons
Crashes, buggy, misrecognition, complicated, unintuitive, expensive.
Summary
I cannot believe that, after all these years, MacSpeech Dictate (formerly iListen) is still daring to sell, for $200.00 software that is next to useless for any productivity function. This software makes you work for the software, instead of the other way around. With all the crashing, bugs, misrecognition, and repeated "microphone setup" every time I have to restart it, I cannot believe that this overpriced app has saved me even 1 minute of time.
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"Disappointing Australian version falls over too often"
Version: MacSpeech Dictate 1.5.9
Pros
Not much Mac Users have been the poor relations in this area for far too long!!!
Cons
Even when trained, the vocabulary does not respond well and in terms of reliability, this is not a very good product. Being physically disabled gives me the opportunity to test all such products and speech to text for the Mac still remains a dream.
Summary
I've had to battle with speech to text software for many years. It's meant running to computer systems because I prefer a Mac. Every speech to text software package for the Apple Computer has been a dud and MacSpeech promised so much. However, despite the fact that I have more than enough RAM, it falls over consistently and I lose work and there is an ongoing problem with feedback. The files requested after a crash are too big to be handled by the server. MacSpeech has now been taken over by Nuance, which produces Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Up to version 9, DNS on a PC set the standard for speech to text software but since then, it has slowly become more cumbersome and error-prone. Somewhat ironically, I discovered when Windows 7 was installed on my PC that the Microsoft speech program was excellent. It hides away in the accessories but is easily trained, is extremely reliable and as such, probably ensures that I will continue to use a PC when I would like to use only one system.
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