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| From: MacSpeech, Inc.
List Price: $199.99
Buy New: $162.98
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Rating:  77 reviews
Sales Rank: 30
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X Intel
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 61-65 of 77
 Disappointed September 2, 2008
Donna (Missoula, MT)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Well, I read others' reviews but thought that people were just complainers. How wrong I was! I should have listened. I use dragon for microsoft at work and was so excited to use the software for my private practice on my mac. I try to work from a template so I already have the titles of different sections of my reports. As I try to fill in the info under each section, dictate writes over my titles and deletes what I have written-it's the strangest thing! It has created more work than it's worth. Very disappointing.
 Not worth it yet September 13, 2008
C. Mitchell (Nashville, TN)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
This product does not hold a candle to Dragon Naturallly Speaking. If you want great voice recognition use Parallel and Version 9 from Amazon. I use Version 7 ( I've had it for years). MacSpeech is no good because you can't correct mistakes it makes time after time. I use it to dictate reports and the vocabulary is not common and MacSpeech won't learn, Wait until they get it to learn - which they said a year ago was due in an upgrade. iListen was not great but it is better than this.
 very useful October 8, 2008
Claire S. Wimbush (Durham, NC)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I just got MacSpeech Dictate today, and am using it to type this review. I'm really impressed. I've tried to use voice dictation software before, but have never gotten it to work efficiently. Since I have cerebral palsy, typing is very difficult for me. MacSpeech Dictate is the first software I've found that actually helps me to use the computer faster. It doesn't seem to have any trouble with my slight speech impediment, and it's doing well as my voice gets tired. I would recommend this software to anyone with a disability who needs to be able to use the computer at a normal pace.
One note: the user guide that comes with the software is woefully inadequate. It's taken me most of the night to figure out how to do simple editing and formatting tasks. But once you get the hang of it, this is great stuff.
 Mac Speech runs flawlessly on Leopard with Intel core 2 duo!! October 13, 2008
Joel Barkley
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
After reading all of the "scary" reviews I was really unsure about purchasing MacScpeech, but my experience was one of extreme ease and definite satisfaction! The program installed effortlessly. It acclimated to my voice within a few short minutes and I was off and running! MacSpeech's accuracy is amazing! Only occasionally does it mistake a word, and that is usually because I used a specialized term not in it's data base or I forgot myself and used slang. Its fast too! Never has a problem keeping up!
If you have an aluminum Mac, which have Intel core duo processors, with 2.8 Ghz processing capability and 2GB of ram memory, you will have no problems. Anything slower and less sophisticated may have problems keeping up with MacSpeech.
works beyond my expectations! October 24, 2008
Lisa Ismy, Technophile (Phoenix, AZ)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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!
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