Product Description

You'll feel like you have your very own typist with MacSpeech Dictate. It's extremely accurate and it adapts to your voice. It only takes five minutes or less of training, so you can get started fast. You can dictate text into any application that supports text entry from the keyboard, even Windows apps running in a virtual environment such as Parallels or Fusion, and also applications like Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, QuarkXPress, iChat, Mail, iPhoto, Keynote, etc. You can even use it to surf the web, or use it for basic menu commands like print, cut, copy, paste, etc.

Internet Ready - Surf the web with your voice Built especially for the Mac Uses the renowned Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition engine Requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher, including Mac OS X 10.5, and requires Intel-based Macintosh hardware

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61 in Software
• Brand: MacSpeech
• Model: MACSPEECH DICTATE
• Released on: 2008-02-15
• Platform: Mac OS X Intel
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .45 pounds

Features

• Amazing Accuracy
• Dictate anywhere you can type
• Minimal Training Required
• Works With The Apps You Already Have
• Comes With Everything You Need, Including Headphones

Customer Reviews

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the software was for my sister in a hursing home.
she can't type very well, nor speak very well.
the software really helps her.
MacSpeech Dictate

works beyond my expectations!
I purchased this product to get me through a temporary disability due to a severely broken left hand. I went with it based on the strength of recommendations by users in reviews like this. They sounded a little too good to be true, but I figured I would give it a try because I was truly desperate for help.

Now I cannot stop telling everybody that they should have one, regardless of whether or not they have a physical impairment that hinders their typing. MacSpeech Dictate is remarkably accurate in rendering one's speech into text that rapidly appears upon the computer screen. I am astonished at this, considering how quickly the training is to get the program to recognize one's voice -- a mere few minutes. A key virtue is that it works with any software application. Yes, you have to keep an eye on it for errors, but it is far easier to correct a few errors than to type the whole thing out by oneself. The effectiveness of this product forbodes a day when computers will no longer require keyboards!

My colleagues all ask me if the software can transcribe interviews -- I gave it a try, but without the ability to train the software with the interviewee's voice, the results are less than adequate. However, one can listen to the interview phrase by phrase, and then repeat them aloud using MacSpeech Dictate, and speedily transcribe it into the computer. And you can set up a voice profile for a research assistant who could do this step for you!

Nowhere Near As Good As Dragon
Don't buy this product. I am a dedicated Mac user, and was using Dragon Naturally Speaking on Parallels. This software is completely inferior to Naturally Speaking, which is pretty awesome. Consider: there is no way to teach the computer directly to recognize new words that you speak, you can only upload them into the software by "showing" the program your documents. The baseline voice recognition is OK, but the lack of "tunability" to your voice is a key problem. Also there are other petty distractions, like you can't dictate and type within the same document easily--if you do this the program gets confused. Hard to believe Nuance would license their voice recognition engine to these jokers...it has really degraded the product as compared to the windows version (Naturally Speaking). Sadly, we must wait a few more years for the ideal Mac dictation software.