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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: MacSpeech
EAN: 0806709380876
Format: CD-ROM
Item Dimensions: 94
Label: MacSpeech, Inc.
Manufacturer: MacSpeech, Inc.
Model: MACSPEECH DICTATE
MPN: MSDICTATE
Platform: Mac OS X Intel
Publisher: MacSpeech, Inc.
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Studio: MacSpeech, Inc.

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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Editorial Review:

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




Rating: - Disappointed
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. ... Read More

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Rating: - Amazing product!
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 :)

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Rating: - Significant Tool For Writer's Golf Bag
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: ... Read More

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Rating: - Best speech recognition on the mac
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.

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Rating: - very inept implementation
the speech-recognition part is pretty good -- far from excellent -- but acceptable if all you are doing is entering massive volumes of text with no editing. As other reviewers have noted there is no ability to teach the program from its mistakes. But worst of all the interface with MS Word is so fraught with problems as to be unusable. So you are reduced to using text edit for all your dictation, and then cut and paste into a Word document. There is almost no capability to edit in any way. You can barely ... Read More

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