MacSpeech Dictate
The premier speech recognition solution for the Macintosh.
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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 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 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! …More570 of 621 people found this 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 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
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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 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. …More435 of 496 people found this useful
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Most Recent Reviews
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MacSpeech Dictate
A must have!
Written by JM from Portland
Oct 24, 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! …More8 of 8 people found this useful
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MacSpeech Dictate
Newbie to the dictation art
Written by RM from Cambridge
Oct 24, 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. …More16 of 16 people found this useful
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MacSpeech Dictate
This app is amazing right out of the box
Written by EB from edison
Sep 23, 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
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Questions & Answers
Most Interesting
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Where can I purchase the 1.5 upgrade to run on Snow Leopard?
- Asked by BB from Ballina, Killaloe
- Oct 9, 2009
Best Answer
At the MacSpeech online site.
- Answered by LB from Calgary
- Oct 21, 2009
- 5 of 6 people found this useful
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do you have a french version of mac speech
- Asked by CL from Saint Petersburg
- Oct 11, 2009
Best Answer
They have a product called MacSpeech Dictate International Crossgrade that is stated to allow dictatation using a choice of German, French, Italian or English. It is an upgrade from version 1.5 or at greater cost from version 1.3. …More
- Answered by LB from Calgary
- Oct 11, 2009
- 5 of 6 people found this useful
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which microphone does this MacSpeech Dictate have?
- Asked by LT from Peakhurst
- Oct 6, 2009
Most Recent
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Dose macspeech dictate have the " read back" feature like Dragon NaturallySpeaking?
- Asked by HB from VERNAL
- Nov 2, 2009
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Will the version being sold here work with Snow Leopard?
- Asked by JT from Toronto
- Oct 28, 2009
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I have movie magic screenwriter will MacSpeech dictate work with this program? If not what do you suggest?
- Asked by JP from Wakefield
- Oct 24, 2009
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Will this work on an eMac? The operating system is adequate, but I'm not sure about the Processor
- Asked by JS from Pasadena
- Oct 14, 2009
