Revolutionary New Speech Recognition Solution for the Mac with Unprecedented Accuracy Makes Using a Mac With Your Voice Easier Than Ever

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., January 15, 2008 - Macworld Conference and Expo 2008, Booth #607 – MacSpeech, Inc. today debuted MacSpeech Dictate™, a revolutionary new speech recognition solution for the Mac.

Now for the first time, Mac users can begin dictating straight into their applications with very little time spent training the software to recognize their voice. Training MacSpeech Dictate, up to a 99% accuracy level, generally takes less than five minutes. MacSpeech Dictate performs at the highest accuracy level on the market today. Using the new MacSpeech Dictate, user-spoken commands are recognized separately from dictation, liberating the user from the need to tell the software to change modes, simplifying the experience.

"MacSpeech Dictate empowers Mac users to create documents with their voice instead of typing," explained Andrew Taylor, president and CEO of MacSpeech, Inc. "MacSpeech Dictate delivers fast set-up, quick command recognition, high accuracy and increased productivity, even for those using MacSpeech Dictate simply to make their life easier."

"Apple's commitment to accessibility is evident throughout Mac OS X, including such ground-breaking features as VoiceOver, our built-in screen reader," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "We're delighted that Mac OS X users now have access to advanced speech-to-text dictation technology from MacSpeech, which nicely complements VoiceOver."

MacSpeech Dictate delivers a truly Mac user experience, and conforms to behaviors already familiar to Macintosh fans worldwide. Beyond dictation, MacSpeech Dictate lets people perform basic navigation of their Mac and control it with their voice using familiar commands like print, cut, copy, paste, etc. The underlying speech recognition and dictation technology is powered by dictation technology from Nuance Communications, Inc. (see related release, dated today).

Far beyond empowering people for whom keyboard input proves problematic, MacSpeech Dictate is designed to simply make computer input easier for anyone. Whether composing email, writing a report or even a novel, MacSpeech Dictate makes the computing experience more comfortable.

MacSpeech, Inc. today began conducting live demonstrations of the new MacSpeech Dictate product in Booth #607 on the Macworld Expo show floor.

Compatibility, Availability and Pricing
MacSpeech Dictate requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher, and requires Intel-based Macintosh hardware.

New MacSpeech Dictate solutions with a choice of headsets, will be priced starting at US$199 and is expected to ship by February 15, 2008. Registered customers of iListen will be eligible to purchase MacSpeech Dictate a special crossgrade price of US$99.

Upon distribution of MacSpeech Dictate to retail outlets, the iListen product will be immediately discontinued. Anyone who purchased the MacSpeech product, iListen, in 2008, can crossgrade to MacSpeech Dictate for US$29 through April 15, 2008.

About MacSpeech, Inc.
MacSpeech, a Mac-only company dedicated to producing the finest speech products for Macintosh, celebrated its ten-year anniversary throughout 2007. Further information on MacSpeech can be found at http://www.macspeech.com.

MacSpeech Dictate and iListen are trademarks, and MacSpeech is a registered trademark of MacSpeech, Inc. Nuance, Dragon, NaturallySpeaking and the Nuance logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. Mac OS X is a registered trademark of Apple, Inc. All other company name or product names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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