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MacSpeech Dictate | 
| From: MacSpeech, Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: $199.99
Buy New: $165.49
You Save: $34.50 (17%)
Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 56
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X Intel
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.9 x 2.5
MPN: MSDICTATE
Model: MACSPEECH DICTATE
UPC: 806709380876
EAN: 0806709380876
ASIN: B0014KJ6EQ
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| 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 |
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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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 Amazing product! August 29, 2008
Steven Smith (Hollywood, California)
I have never used speech recognition software before. I set up MacSpeech Dictate this afternoon, after reading all the directions (unusual for me!). Then I started to dictate some return emails I was not really excited about. This product ROCKS! I could not make a mistake easily.
The only trouble it had was my street name - Beachwood - which it spelled as beech would. Other than that, perfect translation!
Ignore the bad reviews :)
 Significant Tool For Writer's Golf Bag August 23, 2008
Steve Sjogren (Tampa, FL, USA)
Dictate is perhaps not for all writers (I am one). Depending upon your unique wiring as a creative type, this could be an awesome piece of software for you.
If you are of the writing, learning, idea capturing style that does things on the fly this software could be just what you have been looking for. It has filled a serious need in my life.
If you are one who formulates decent ideas as you verbalize - this could be of serious help to you.
Ponder...
EASE OF VOICE TRAINING: 8
The software's training aspect is not anything serious to speak of. I have invested in several other pieces other pieces of software in hopes of gaining what Dictate does - each of them were significantly more complex - each of them required more time, training for me. None of them were nearly as accurate as Dictate honestly.
ACCURACY: 8
It is accurate enough. I talk fast (200+ words per minutes) yet it picks up on my voice very well.
ONLINE HELP: 9
If need be the Dictate help is super high end, free, and patient. Highly professional.
ADDITIONAL HARDWARE AVAILABLE: 9
If you are a gear freak like me, once you have found a piece of software that works well, you may like to continue to use the product to its full extent. Headsets, etc. are available in abundance. They are affordable it seems.
PRICE POINT: 8
Price compare and you will see. Overall I am greatly pleased with Dictate. I readily recommend this to others. The Amazon price point makes the basic Dictate package affordable.
I hope there is going to be a portable version out sooner than later for use on my Olympus LS-10 mp3 recorder that will work in sync with Dictate. Two such pieces working together would be 'Butta' a Streisand says.
Best speech recognition on the mac August 14, 2008
Alexander Hulpke (Ft. Collins, CO, USA, Earth)
After an initial problem (you *must* use an USB Soundcard, otherwise you cannot create a profile) the program installed and worked fine. Recognition is for me as good as Dragon9 under Parallels, what is missing is Dragon's editing features (thus only 4 stars).
If you want speech recognition on the mac, this is the best solution available at the moment.
At times, amazing. August 2, 2008
Jonathan Wolfman (Brattleboro, VT)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am writing this review using MacSpeech Dictate. I will not make any corrections you can see how this comes out.
I was recently injured, and have been unable to type on my keyboard. After reading the mixed reviews of this product, I felt that I really had no choice so I bought it.
The installation was easy and went off without a hitch. The initial training of the software was also simple, and took about five minutes. I have to say it was very exciting watching the software recognize my voice.
While the software is not perfect, it is definitely allowing me to use my computer again. I'm mostly using it to compose e-mails. It is fast, and seems to be pretty reliable. There was one time when it started to get a little wonky, so I quit the application and restarted it. This seemed to fix the problem.
On the con side, I don't feel that I have a lot of control over the software. For example, if I say a word that it doesn't recognize, I don't see a way for me to add that easily to a dictionary. There is no way for me to spell something that it doesn't recognize. I like to sign my name Johnny, but my name does not have an h in it. I don't see a way for me to change this, so I always had to use the keyboard and mouse to get the h out of their.
This is clearly a version 1.0 of the software. It's missing some good user interface control panels that allow the user to control the software. But the speech recognition is exceptional. As you can see, there really weren't that many mistakes in this review. I have not gone back and changed anything except it would not recognize the letter H. I had to type that above. It kept typing the word each or age.
I'm looking forward to the next update of the software. But for now, I consider it an essential tool for me. I hope this is helpful.
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