MacSpeech Dictate
Customer Ratings
Based on 44 reviews
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MacSpeech Dictate
Those Headphones and Accuracy?
Written by SG from St.Neots
Jan 8, 2009
Dear All,
I am writing this as a regular seasoned Dragon user on the Laptop for my job - and Love it by the way - but I am a true macbook pro lover and would rather use it instead of the windows Laptop. So when I saw that DNS was now the main driver behind MacSpeech I thought my prays had been answered - So I bought it!
I got it out of the box - and!! Well I could not believe those Headphones? and you have to plug them in to the USB gizzmo. It would appear that DNS have not given over ALL the Technology to MacSpeech.
I would like to say "Please get rid of the Headphones and allow us to plug straight into the mac"
Just one other thing - The accuracy is not that brilliant! DNS technology works far better on the PC at the moment I am afraid.
If you can make the changes and get the accuracy up I would be the first one to sing it's praises!!111 of 125 people found this useful
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MacSpeech Dictate
Gotta be kidding
Written by RB from Providence
Dec 25, 2008
The built in MacBook Pro Mic cannot be accessed by MacSpeech Dictate forcing the use of a ridiculous headset - pilot to co-pilot. Absurd decision- no doubt to up headset sales - very Microsoft.
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MacSpeech Dictate
Spend more time making corrections.
Written by KE
Nov 5, 2008
The reason why I bought MacSpeech Dictate was because I had back surgery and typing creates a knot in the center of my back - not to mention that I have arthritis. I do use this program when I know I'm going to be typing more than 300 words or until I get fed up. I spend a great deal of time going over everything I write and doing corrections. MacSpeech Dictate has a very hard time knowing when to capitalize at the beginning of the sentence, When you are doing corrections, and at the beginning of a new paragraph. you have to be extremely careful using this program. (as last two sentences clearly show.) Getting a hold of tech support is very difficult. A new version came out with a free upgrade and I had hoped it would take care of the errors. It did not. Sometimes it works fabulously and other times I think I'm speaking in a different language. Regardless you have to be very careful using this program. If you're using it to save time... Don't. If you're using it because you have physical limitations, then it could be of help. I think all the four and five star reviews were placed by employees of MacSpeech Dictate. Because I'm telling you, it is a constant fight. if what you are writing is important, I hope you have a secretary to proofread or you're very good at proofreading yourself. I won't put my secretary through that. she's got a lot more important things to do. the only reason I fixed the spelling errors in this review was simply to make it legible and to make sense. I had to make a lot of corrections to this review. However, he did not fix capitalization. And at the beginning of that last sentence, I said, "I", not, "he".... Just an example.
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MacSpeech Dictate
Not Good.
Written by KE from Greensburg
Oct 10, 2008
This product was a waste of $200. I don't know how it got such high reviews. I have to constantly reach rain at to understand my speech.( I said we train it) reach trying at, retrying it, read train it... retrain it! I spend more time making corrections than I would if I just typed what I have to say. I have excellent verbal skills and speech. It shouldn't be so hard.
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MacSpeech Dictate
What!
Written by BT
May 31, 2008
Why would they hype up such a horrible product. This is as bad as the windows 3000 "speech recognition" system. I spent a day teaching this program my voice. They say it takes 20 minuets! When its took about three hours for it to even make one coherent sentence! Do not buy.
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