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[PR]MacSpeech Dictate Ships To Founding iListen Customers Only

by MacSpeech, Inc.

MacSpeech Dictate Ships To Founding iListen Customers Only

New Speech Recognition Solution for the Mac Begins to Ship and is Expected Through Various Retailers and Resellers Within Six Weeks.

SALEM, N.H., February 15, 2008 - MacSpeech, Inc. today announced that MacSpeech Dictate™ 1.0, a new speech recognition solution for the Mac, began shipping to iListen Founding Customers. Crossgrades from iListen to MacSpeech Dictate will go into production next. New copies of MacSpeech Dictate will go into production following crossgrades, shipping directly to satisfying pre-orders from Macworld Expo, and then through the distributors for various retail stores and resellers.

"MacSpeech is quickly ramping up to handle the staggering demand for MacSpeech Dictate that followed our demonstrations at Macworld Expo in January," explained Andrew Taylor, president and CEO of MacSpeech, Inc. "The release of this product will happen in deliberate steps. First we are taking care of those whose early help brought the company to this point."

MacSpeech Dictate is a new speech recognition product for the Mac, with underlying speech recognition powered by the dictation technology used in Dragon NaturallySpeaking from Nuance Communications, Inc. MacSpeech Dictate delivers a 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.

Compatibility, Availability and Pricing
MacSpeech Dictate requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher, including Mac OS X 10.5, and requires Intel-based Macintosh hardware.

New MacSpeech Dictate solutions with a choice of headsets, will be priced starting at US$199. Registered customers of iListen will be eligible to purchase MacSpeech Dictate at special introductory crossgrade price of US$79 (regularly US$99). 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/

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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.

Editorial Contact

Editorial Contact: pr@macspeech.com
This article was published on Saturday 16 February, 2008.