MacSpeech Dictate
The premier speech recognition solution for the Macintosh.
Learn more
Overview
Written from the ground up for the Mac, MacSpeech Dictate's features, accuracy, and capabilities make it as fun, productive, and intuitive to use as the Mac itself. The all-new MacSpeech Dictate provides everything you need, including a headphone/microphone unit.
Amazing accuracy
MacSpeech Dictate will astonish you with its accuracy. Simply talk and leave the recognition to MacSpeech Dictate.
Essential command capabilities
Instead of using your mouse to select menu commands or your keyboard to type shortcuts, just speak a command. MacSpeech Dictate executes it for you. What could be easier?
Works with the applications you already have
Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, QuarkXPress, and many other popular applications are perfectly compatible with MacSpeech Dictate. And MacSpeech Dictate works great with Apple applications as well, including iChat, Mail, iPhoto, Keynote, and more.
Built especially for the Mac
Mac users expect only the best from the applications they use on their Macs. MacSpeech Dictate was built from the ground up to ensure the ultimate experience for Mac users.
No training required
MacSpeech Dictate provides astounding productivity straight out of the box. You don't need to invest a single second of time "training" MacSpeech Dictate.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition engine
At the core of MacSpeech Dictate is the world-renowned speech recognition engine, Dragon NaturallySpeaking. It's the brains and brawn behind MacSpeech Dictate's phenomenal accuracy capabilities.
System Requirements
- Mac OS X v10.4.11 or v10.5.1 or later
- Intel Core Duo processor
In the box
- Dictate software
- Headphone/microphone unit
Mfr. Part No.: 806709380876
Note: Products sold through this website that do not bear the Apple Brand name are serviced and supported exclusively by their manufacturers in accordance with terms and conditions packaged with the products. Apple's Limited Warranty does not apply to products that are not Apple-branded, even if packaged or sold with Apple products. Please contact the manufacturer directly for technical support and customer service.
Most Useful Reviews
-
MacSpeech Dictate
Excellent
Written by JM from Victoria
4-Jun-2008
I have been a user of Via Voice, Dragon Naturally Speaking and iListen. Dragon is a PC program and is the best of the lot. Since Macspeech went to the Dragon or Nuance engine, and came out with Dictate they have finally come up with a great product. It is not perfect, but it is amazing. Both my wife and I set up profiles and had it trained in less than 15 minutes.
There have been problems for some people regarding customer service issues, but the product is fine. I say buy it! …More602 of 655 people found this useful
Was this useful?
-
MacSpeech Dictate
IT DOES WORK!!!
Written by AJ from Sacramento
15-Jun-2008
I am a previous user of MacSpeech and I could never get it to work. However, with MacSpeech Dictate, I set it up as directed and then I set up my own voice account. Believe it or not, the program recognized my speech after about 15 minutes of my reading frames of text. I then went in to enter data (speaking data?) and it worked flawlessly! I am amazed at how well this program set up as well as how easy it is to use. They also have complete libraries of commands that you can speak in Mail, Pages and so on. I can't stop using it as typing is really a pain fo me. This is the best "productive" software that I have ever bought!! I highly recommend it. …More
520 of 572 people found this useful
Was this useful?
-
MacSpeech Dictate
Product works but, the support does not
Written by BH from Oakville
5-Jun-2008
Purchased this earlier this year. I rec'd one of the bad disks that had this product crashing everytime. After countless calls to the helpdesk finally had someone that said "you probably have the bad disk". Rec'd new disk in the mail a few days later. Works great after that.
Found that MacSpeech hid after the issues with the disk instead of coming out and admitting it. They took the support feature offline and did nothing to help their cause.
I have been using it for awhile now and really like the product. Had issues with my 14 year old on it until I noticed the "teen option".
Hope they learned from this issue and will improve the customer service. …More456 of 518 people found this useful
Was this useful?
Most Recent Reviews
-
MacSpeech Dictate
A must have!
Written by JM from Portland
24-Oct-2009
MacSpeech Dictate is such an awesome item!
I'm a college student and I have so many papers to write each week that I have very little free time, but that was before I discovered MacSpeech. A paper that used to take me three or four hours to type up now takes me less than 30 minutes, which frees up so much of my time to do other things.
I'm using MacSpeech right now, it makes very few mistakes but it can be annoying, there are certain words that simply does not understand and you may have to manually type them in, I usually wait until I proofread my paper and correct it. I highly recommend MacSpeech to anyone who has a lot of writing to do. It will save you a lot of time. Even though it is not perfect, it is close enough! …More47 of 47 people found this useful
Was this useful?
-
MacSpeech Dictate
Newbie to the dictation art
Written by RM from Cambridge
24-Oct-2009
I bought the product at the Apple store and had to make sure that I was buying the 1.5 release - that's the one that runs with Snow Leopard. It was not clear on the box, so we had to call the company.
The product installed quickly, asked to install the latest update, and trained within five minutes. It came with a one-ear piece Plantronics microphone. I have used the product with two other less expensive earphone-mic's.
In general, it captures speech very well. Editing seems to be more of a problem - there are a large number of rather complex editing commands to be mastered.
I bought this product to write student evaluations and will be using it heavily in the next few weeks. I feel the product is appropriate, though not as flexible as I would like or as easy to use.
I'm writing this with MacSpeech Dictate. It made a few errors in discriminating between words such as, "year" and "ear", it did capitalize Plantronics, but not Snow Leopard. …More45 of 45 people found this useful
Was this useful?
-
MacSpeech Dictate
This app is amazing right out of the box
Written by EB from edison
23-Sep-2009
I cannot explain this any other way is just amazing it just works I'm running snow leopard and is running great I'm actually doing this review with it I've tried others this is the best …More
41 of 59 people found this useful
Was this useful?
Questions & Answers
Most Interesting
-
Where can I purchase the 1.5 upgrade to run on Snow Leopard?
- Asked by BB from Ballina, Killaloe
- 9-Oct-2009
Best Answer
At the MacSpeech online site.
- Answered by LB from Calgary
- 21-Oct-2009
- 6 of 8 people found this useful
-
which microphone does this MacSpeech Dictate have?
- Asked by LT from Peakhurst
- 6-Oct-2009
-
Is this version 1.5?
- Asked by MC from Windsor
- 20-Oct-2009
Best Answer
If on the box the system requirements mention 10.4, it is the older version. If the system requirements don't mention 10.4, and only mention Leopard, then it is 10.5. Can you visit an Apple Retail Store so you can look at the box before making your purchase? …More
- Answered by AB
- 3-Nov-2009
- 6 of 7 people found this useful
Most Recent
-
Does MacSpeech Dictate offer discount if you have iListen?
- Asked by TC from Liberty Lake
- 4-Dec-2009
-
instead of speaking, can I play a digital recording of an interview into it and get a transcript?
- Asked by AM from San Francisco
- 4-Dec-2009
-
is this works with ical?I mean can I just say for exemple tuesday december first doctor's appointment?
- Asked by BB from Toronto
- 27-Nov-2009
