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
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Most Recent Reviews
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MacSpeech Dictate
Getting better but not there yet and now has a worrisome security issue
Written by SC from Shreveport
Jun 23, 2009
MacSpeech Dictate is certainly significantly better than its predecessor iListen but not equal to the Nuance NaturallySpeaking for…Read more Windows. I am now dictating this comment using version 1.3 and the accuracy is close to that I get when using Vista Speech Recognition software on my PC computer.
I believe if potential customers peruse reviews and forums including they MacSpeech forums you will see a great deal of frustration with with MacSpeech customer support and more recently their insistence that those of us who purchased MacSpeech Dictate shell out $60 plus shipping to upgrade to the latest version 1.5. MacSpeech ended up closing comments on the upgrade approximately 2 weeks into the overwhelming negative responses posted on their forum.
MacSpeech Dictate continues to have issues with mixed keyboard and voice editing. It is extremely disturbing to see your text scrambled or simply disappear after a few simple keyboard edits have been made. Additionally, I have experienced more crashes using Dictate and any other software for my Mac. One very unsettling observation has been that when MacSpeech dictate 1.3 crashes it launches my e-mail client and attempts to send detailed information detailing all that I have been doing prior to the crash including the document I am working on.
The first time this happened, I instinctively hit the send button forwarding this data to MacSpeech. Fortunately, I was not working on a sensitive document for my accountant, attorney or client. This option could prove devastating to professionals such as physicians and needs to be eliminated particularly given that MacSpeech is now making a version specifically for medical professionals.
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MacSpeech Dictate
I bought it and you should too!
Written by DR from Honolulu
May 25, 2009
This is not perfect software, but it is easy to use and great for writing papers with. My wife and I are both full time workers a…Read morend full time grad school students along with being parents and active socially. Dictate enables us to "write" our papers much better, quicker and longer.
It look a short time to set up and was easy to set up. You have to pace your dictation and annunciate, but its pretty darn good. Unless you hire someone to take dictation for you, life can't get easier. If you want perfection, then this isn't for you. But if 98% (IMO) is good enough, go get this.(37 of 39 people found this review useful)
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MacSpeech Dictate
Awful software
Written by JG from Philadelphia
May 25, 2009
If you are looking to quickly dictate your computer long documents and letters just in a few minutes, this is not it, dont buy thi…Read mores piece of software. It is horrible!!!!! It will take you hours to clean up the "dictation" mess up. That is only if you dont have any trouble installing the USB microphone that comes with the software. I will rather keep typing until my hands bleed. Good luck and please let me know if you find something good in terms of mac speech recognition.
(22 of 43 people found this review useful)
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Most Useful Reviews
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MacSpeech Dictate
Excellent
Written by JM from Victoria
Jun 4, 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 M…Read moreacspeech 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!(466 of 509 people found this review useful)
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MacSpeech Dictate
IT DOES WORK!!!
Written by AJ from Sacramento
Jun 15, 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 t…Read morehen 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.
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MacSpeech Dictate
Product works but, the support does not
Written by BH from Oakville
Jun 5, 2008
Purchased this earlier this year. I rec'd one of the bad disks that had this product crashing everytime. After countless calls to …Read morethe 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.(346 of 399 people found this review useful)
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