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| From: MacSpeech, Inc.
List Price: $199.99
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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 31-35 of 77
 Don't buy, yet. It WILL BE a good product. April 29, 2008
D. Pickert (Nashville, TN)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
As a long time Dragon Nat. Speak user and recent iListen user, don't buy this product yet, at least don't pay full price for it.
I had the bad DATA disk problem and just got my new one and now am up and running with MacSpeech.
I like it but with the lack of being able to add new vocabulary and spell correction, this product is not of much use in real world dictation. There is no way to train new words to your voice. You can add new words via adding document.
Wait until they have a "real" full blown version, then buy it. You will love it.
Its pretty much exactly like Dragon Nat. Speaking, just for the MAC.
It is much better than iListen by far.
I work in a science dept, so not having the ability to train new words or correct them, puts me at a distinct disadvantage. I am still using Dragon Nat. Speak (for WIN).
There are some nice features, adding new global commands, text macros, that I will use often.
But they rushed to get this product out before it was ready (did they used to work for
Microsoft?!) and in so doing have made a lot of unhappy customers including myself. It WILL BE a nice product when they have it all together.
If you do buy it, keep these limitations in mind.
Works with significant limitations April 9, 2008
Michael J. Wheatley (portland, oregon United States)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I was one of the fortunate people who did not have problems with installation of the software. As noted by the other reviewers who were able to get software to work, this speech recognition far exceeds that of previous voice-recognition programs for the Mac. The biggest drawback to this program is that it does not have the ability to learn words that are not in its dictionary. This is problematic for professionals such as physicians and lawyers who use technical language that is not in the software dictionary. The other posts suggest that this functionality will come with future releases. At the present time, the absence of this function is a significant limitation for anyone who requires technical terms for their writing. That said, it is extremely accurate for non-technical dictating. In addition, the software is quirky. My current problem is that it occasionally deletes, copies, and pastes words or sentences, and I have no idea where these came from or why the program is doing this. The program is a useful piece of software but does not totally replace the need for a keyboard. Presumably the program will work better in the future as updates are released. The purpose of this review is to indicate that the software does work for me, which apparently has not been the case for many purchasers. For this reason, it gets two stars. However the software clearly has limitations, the most significant of which is the inability to learn new words. In addition, it is quirky. I can recommend it with these caveats.
a very good product for a 1.0 April 20, 2008
Joseph B. Buscher Jr. (San Bernardino California)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I am legally blind in my amusing as software to dictate today I am not going to correct any of the errors that are made by the MacSpeech software. I have been using Dragon NaturallySpeaking for about four years and I find it to be a very good product for the PC but I am definitely wanting to switch over all of my applications to the Macintosh. I used to use iListen let that product was so terrible that I cannot even use it for one day went out running into major problems. Would this program I am able to do a fairly good job dictating my information that I need to get out people. I will like to know where I can find how to teach specific words to the software because I use a lot of Pacific words in my job. I would definitely recommend this product to somebody who has experience with speech recognition software but for a 1.0 product there still is a ways to go. I also would like to know where is the owner's manual for this product so that I can learn how to use a matter they need to have better documentation and phone support. Shame on MacSpeech for not providing phone support and a manual rain very upset with his company for that in their lack of phone support. As you can see most of my text is probably good I would deftly raided a three-star product it can be better over time.
 Review of Customer Support NOT Product May 6, 2008
Bob Drake (Bronx, NY United States)
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is really a review of MacSpeech support more than a product. You see, I own a G4 Mac and so cannot presently run Dictate. However, I did inquire about a crossgrade on March 26th, and, when I did not get a response, again on April 23rd -- before the deadline for crossgrades expired on April 27th. I just received the first response from Customer Support today, May 5th. Not good!
 Impressive accuracy May 7, 2008
ffass (Brooklyn, NY United States)
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
I primarily purchased this program for a close friend who has poor keyboarding skills, so I've only spent a couple of days with it to test it out. Years ago I bought and used iListen on the Mac (back in the OS 9 era). Without a doubt, compared to iListen this program is lightyears ahead in terms of accuracy. After about 4 minutes of speaking into my headset mic to "train" Dictate I was ready to go. I was skeptical that such as short training session would be enough, but it hit the ground running and duplicated my every word. I'm truly amazed by its accuracy! The only flubs that are produced happen when I slur or clip my words a bit too much. Yes, it would've been better for the developers to have included "correction training" and the ability to spell out words one letter at a time (for those oddball words), but those features will be coming along in an free update soon enough. It's been fantastic for me in writing my emails and journal, so I'm joining my friend in becoming a daily user of Dictate.
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