- MacSpeech Dictate
MacSpeech Dictate is a
speech recognition program written forMac OS X byMacSpeech . The software was released in March 2008 after being showcased at theMacworld Conference & Expo in 2008 and won the Best Of Show 2008 award.MacSpeech Dictate was written using the highly successful and very accurate Dragon
NaturallySpeaking speech recognition engine fromNuance Communications .A review/comparison to NaturallySpeaking for Windows
Reviewing MacSpeech Dictate in the New York Times, David Pogue concludes with some warnings.
So Dictate 1.0 is attractive, simple and Mac-like. It is not, however, as good as NaturallySpeaking 9.0 for Windows ($200). It lacks features like audio playback of what you said, a simple “add word” command, legal and medical versions, and non-English language kits.
It also lacks voice correction.
When NatSpeak makes an error, you just say “Correct ‘ax a moron’ ” (or whatever it typed); and choose from a list of alternate transcriptions. The program not only corrects the error in your document, but also learns from its mistake. Over time, the accuracy edges ever closer to 100 percent.
In Dictate 1.0, however, you have to fix transcription errors by hand. The company intends to add voice correction in a 1.1 update; in the meantime, though, your accuracy won’t improve.
The late beta version I tested has some bugs. The company intends to get these fixed by the 1.0 version’s mid-February release. [New Tools to Bolster Mac’s World http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/technology/personaltech/24pogue.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1 Published: January 24, 2008]
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List of commercial speech recognition programs External links
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