First Thoughts about MacSpeech Dictate
this is my first paragraph dictated with MacSpeech Dictate. I purchased MacSpeech iListen last year with the idea that it would help alleviate some wrist strain I’ve been experiencing. Having been a software developer all of my life I have deftly put some strain on them. And we promised a lot, I listen by MacSpeech never really worked for me. However when it was announced in January that they would be licensing Dragon’s NaturallySpeaking, I knew I had to upgrade. What a great decision that was.Having only completed the one short training session that is required, I’ve been e-mailing, instant messaging and now blogging with almost perfect accuracy. The difference between these programs is startling. I never, ever, in my life would have recommended I listen to anyone. MacSpeech Dictate, on the other hand, I can recommend after only 10 minutes of use. Wouldn’t you? Everything you are reading here was dictated within 30 minutes of installing the program.All right, this is too much fun, I have to get back to work.
I had been accustomed to using Dragon NaturallySpeaking by Nuance and the excellent speech-recognition and translation software bundled with all flavors of Vista. In contrast, I saw iListen as a flawed product, which in my mind, should have been discontinued years ago.
Dictate is light years ahead of iListen and with improved correction options and the extermination of a few bugs, Dictate may finally offer Mac users a speech to text technology competitive with that we have grown accustomed to in the Windows world.
Sam
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