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Awards Highlights
Business Software of the Year, MacUser "Five out of five mice: The best voice recognition and control system we've come across."
Education Product of the Year, Macworld UK "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."
Editors Choice Award, BuyMeAniPhone.com "MacSpeech has taken voice recognition to a new level." Featured Reviews
"Not only has the software itself been about 98 per cent accurate, it does definitely improve with training. For example, without me actually training the word, it now will correctly spell my first (rather unusual) name when I say it. It also recognises an extraordinary range of vocabulary, including many personal names, company names, slang terms, and specialist vocabulary items. It is rather fun to lean back in your ergonomic typing chair with your headset on and your arms behind your back and just talk at your computer screen....I am still learning my way around this fantastic bit of software, but can give it a big thumbs up. It not only saves your poor aching arms and hands, but is a fascinating new way to interact with your computer regardless of whether you have RSI, wish to prevent it or just want to have an awful lot of fun."
"I am very, very impressed with this software. I highly recommend it. As I was writing this review (or speaking it) there was a large concrete saw [!] in operation in the background. Couple that with my accent and you get an idea of just how accurate and versatile this software is."
"There are many Mac users who either have a physical disability or simply struggle typing for long periods. For this type of potential user, MacSpeech Dictate is an absolute must-have application. It makes using a computer without a keyboard and mouse possible, and does so with the style expected from an OS X application. For this type of user, I cannot recommend MacSpeech high enough."
"Dictate actually boosted my productivity. About the only pain is learning not to forget about punctuation marks. If you are fed up with typing, MacSpeech Dictate is one program you won’t regret having purchased."
[MacSpeech Dictate Legal] "I’ve spent some time with this product and it is really nice saying terms like ex parte without grinding to a halt. ...If you are practicing law on a Mac, this one will pay for itself in a few days."
[MacSpeech Dictate Legal] "The program did very, very well with the English legal terms. ...already I can see the added benefit of having those 30,000 words included in my speech recognition software. The time that I have saved by not having to spell out, or even more detrimental to productivity, typed out legal-specific words is substantial."
"Voice recognition software has been around for years, and for the most part been disappointing. That's just changed. Training is no longer a half day session; it took us only five minutes to complete, and although we chose not to perform any of the extended training programmes, it achieved near 100% accuracy from the off. This really was a revelation....It's fair to say that MacSpeech Dictate has restored our faith in Mac-based voice recognition software...The application is reasonably priced, and now that we have got used to the idea of thinking into a microphone rather than the keyboard, we're hooked."
"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." Archive - 2008
"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."
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