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Dictate... The Future of Speech Recognition On The Intel-Mac Has Arrived

Welcome to the brand new MacSpeech Dictate, the premier speech recognition solution for the Macintosh. Written from the ground up for the Mac, MacSpeech Dictate’s features, accuracy, and capabilities make it as fun, productive, and intuitive to use as the Mac itself.

The all-new MacSpeech Dictate provides:

  • Amazing Accuracy: MacSpeech Dictate will astonish you with its accuracy. You simply talk and leave the recognition to MacSpeech Dictate.
  • Minimal Training Required: MacSpeech Dictate provides astounding accuracy and productivity. With just five minutes or less 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 could be easier?
  • Uses the Legendary Dragon Speech Recognition Engine by Nuance: At the core of MacSpeech Dictate is the world-renowned Dragon speech recognition engine by Nuance. It’s the brains and brawn behind MacSpeech Dictate’s phenomenal accuracy capabilities.
  • 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, Keynote, and more.
  • Comes With Everything You Need, Including Headphones: There are no hidden costs. MacSpeech Dictate includes everything you need to be instantly productive as soon as start using it, including a high quality USB headset.
  • 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 for Mac users.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.0.1 significantly improves documentation, adds easier license key handling, and provides enhanced AppleScript support including the ability to create commands. Version 1.0.1 is also a maintenance update that includes fixes for reported issues and is now available for registered customers, using the "Check for Updates" feature.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later, or Mac OS X 10.5.1 or later. Internet connection required for product registration. A MacSpeech-certified USB noise-canceling microphone is strongly recommended.
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Developer:MacSpeech, Inc.
Downloads:574
  - Version d/l:415
Business:Applications
License:Commercial
Date:01 Apr 2008
Platform:Intel
Price:$199.00
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    May 25 2008
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    IPECK  Tested on Mac OSX 10.5.2 Intel iMac Core2Duo 2 Ghz, 1 Go RAM.

    The setup is quite long to go tru but on the other hand it needs to gather much infos about your voice so its ok.

    The interface is easy to use and responding pretty well to computer commands (Open apps, nav tru windows and finder). The app do take a lot of RAM. Diminishing your multi-tasking ability.

    You will need to give more infos on your voice after setup to the dictating tool cuz the setup seem not to gather enough from voice at start. The dictating tool is kinda slow to type your words. Sometimes you wounder if it got your speeched words right.

    The accuracy of the tool is quite good though. Surprises me everytime. The vocubulary training is a good addition too, widens the tool capacity to understand your speech. The coolest thing is the use of the tool, natively on almost all you installed apps, you dont even need to setup for other apps uses. The software detects your apps.

    The pricing is kinda high considering there is still considerable work to be done on this app. But very promising.  (Version 1.0.1)

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    May 3 2008

    HOWZEE  I bought 'Dictate' and have had a NIGHTMARE trying to get it to work - to no avail and despite several fruitless conversations with the customer service team. The program only works in itself - and spits out scrambled rubbish in all other programs... a problem that is WELL KNOWN and mentioned various blogs and forums... but a problem that the MacSpeech CS Team allegedly know nothing about! Poor show. I cannot advise anyone to buy this product.   (Version 1.0.1)

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    Apr 27 2008

    ANDREWA121  I didn't think the lack of support documentation would be a problem. Well, it is, as the program beachballs every time I try to set up a profile. So I'm out of commission until Support gets back to me. I'm worried, because I've heard that MacSpeech's support is mediocre at best. We'll see...  (Version 1.0.1)

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    Apr 24 2008
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    WILMA  The good news:

    MacSpeech Dictate is VERY usable dictation software for the Mac. It is fast, accurate, easy to use, and takes under 10 minutes to set up and train. Wow!

    Dictate is light-years better than iListen. If you discarded iListen because it wasn't usable, you should upgrade NOW.

    The bad news:

    Dictate is a far-from-complete early release. It doesn't have all its features yet (no spelling mode, no correction feature).

    Dictate is still buggy. Mixing typing and dictation is a sure way to get Dictate confused and cause some really strange behavior. Especially since Undo is buggy, you will want to do FREQUENT saves. (I usually dictate into Note Pad, with frequent saves, and then transfer text to TextEdit or Bean.)

    If you haven't used dictation software before, or if you already have a Naturally Speaking on Windows, you may want to hold off buying Dictate until some of the worst bugs get fixed.

    It takes under 10 minutes to set up Dictate and start dictating text. Accuracy is excellent. There are some capitalization bugs, which result in occasional Words in the middle of sentences getting capitalized. A few times I've seen a random word gets UPPERCASED.

    Dictate allows you to transcribe speech into its own Note Pad window, or directly into applications. (I mostly use the Bean word processor, as it is fast and simple, and can quickly switch text between smart and dumb quotes.)

    The Note Pad interface is rather buggy. Typing into it only works if your cursor is at the end; otherwise, letters tend to type backwards, and are directly attached to the previous word. Cutting and pasting cause Dictate to get confused, which will quickly scramble your text.

    Dictate is very processor-intensive. You will want to turn off process-hogging applications while you work.

    Teaching Dictate your vocabulary and writing style requires feeding the program TEXT or RTF documents, which it analyzes for vocabulary and word use patterns. Then you get to choose which words actually get added to the program's vocabulary. I'm a professional writer with a huge vocabulary, and fed it a huge amount of text, which took over an hour per profile. (I dictate using two different voices to rest my vocal chords.)

    Documentation is decent.

    Summary: Dictate is fast, accurate, and highly usable despite its quirks. If you have used dictation software before, especially iListen, Dictate is well worth getting. If not, you might want to wait one more rev for additional features and bug fixes.  (Version 1.0.1)

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