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Featured Review MacSpeech Dictate 1.2.1: Speech recognition program a must-have for users who can't type"If you can’t type, or have RSI problems, this program is a must-have; if you type slowly, you’ll find it to be a boon to your productivity.""Over time, as the program’s accuracy improves, it can make entering text into your Mac much more relaxing and efficient." MacSpeech Dictate
"The most apt descriptive for Dictate that springs to mind is 'effortless.'...If you've never tried dictation software, or perhaps did some years ago and found yourself underwhelmed, it's time to consider (or reconsider) how it can make your computing more comfortable, pleasant and efficient."
"MacSpeech has taken voice recognition to a new level. I was skeptical, considering I have tried voice recognition in the past, but within minutes of installing MacSpeech I was up and running. Composing while only speaking is not only cool but efficient especially for the typing challenged. ... I was so impressed and enjoyed using this program so much it gets the Editors’ Choice
Award."
"I am extremely impressed by the applications ability to translate speech. That is what this is all about, isn’t it? If you need to regularly shoot out long e-mails, or write out long articles for your newspaper columns, or if you find yourself regularly typing out your notes from a notebook, MacSpeech Dictate is where it ends."
"Any Trekkie worth their salt has probably fantasized about a speech program for their computer. Up until recently that’s all it could be was a fantasy. Sure, there have been some speech – to – text programs in the past but most were primitive at best. The new program for Macintosh, MacSpeech 1.3, turns fantasy into reality."
"And when I say accurate, I mean really accurate; like, I wrote this 95% of this article using MacSpeech Dictate (the other 5% was me adding minor details like this). The software is very intelligent, so you won’t find yourself correcting it very often. And it knows all about the rules for words like “its” and “there,” meaning there’s a small chance it might actually be smarter than you, but I wouldn’t get all grumpy about it."
"At $200, Dictate should be appealing to anyone who does much
writing or who relies on voice commands to interact with programs and OS X."
"Dictate, however, managed to achieve almost 100 per cent
accuracy after only a few minutes training...The improvement really is impressive, and this is the first speech-recognition program that we could genuinely recommend as a dictation tool."
"As is, Dictate is an exciting, usually accurate way to transcribe speech to text and control your Mac.
"What's so exciting about Dictate is that it runs natively on the Mac."
"MacSpeech Dictate is fast and accurate, pouring correctly transcribed text into any program where you ordinarily type, as fast as you can speak."
"So, it's good to see a first-class dictation program finally come to the Mac." |