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MacSpeech Dictate v1.5

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!

609 of 662 people found this useful

MacSpeech Dictate v1.5

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.

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MacSpeech Dictate v1.5

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.

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MacSpeech Dictate v1.5

I love this program

Written by RM from Soquel

Jul 18, 2008

Ever sense I finished with a 10 minute training exercise, it has made zero errors and I can complete school assignments in half the time with this program. I would recommend this program to anyone.

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MacSpeech Dictate v1.5

Inaccurate

Written by AM from Conroe

Aug 2, 2008

Mostly inaccurate.

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MacSpeech Dictate v1.5

ALMOST 5 STARS

Written by JF from LOS ANGELES

Aug 5, 2008

It's not perfect, but pretty darn close. In fact, I'm writing this review with it. I find that the more naturally I speak, the better it does. The people who've written reviews totally trashing it must be doing something wrong. Teaching it new words is a pain in the nether regions, but if they improve that along with teaching it to recognize e-mail addresses and so on, it will be a five-star product. I'm very satisfied, and it's helping me through an arm injury more than I can tell you.

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MacSpeech Dictate v1.5

Finally, good dictation software.

Written by KS from DANVILLE

Aug 9, 2008

I have used dictation software from time-to-time, but always seemed it always seemed like it never got over the hump. Within the first day of using this, I was sliding down the other side of said hump. The training for it to learn your voice patterns takes no time. I find myself using it for email, taking quick notes, penning letters. I have not found a program that it does not work seamlessly in. Great program.

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MacSpeech Dictate v1.5

Very Good!

Written by EL

Aug 18, 2008

Compared to previous versions of macspeech voice recognition programs this is very good and works well.This may very well be the best voice recognition program so far. It learned my voice in about 5 minutes in one training session, Its not 100% perfect buts its well up there. I would recommend this program to anyone who needs voice recognition software for whatever reason.

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MacSpeech Dictate v1.5

MacSpeech Dictate -- great program!!

Written by BG from Old Greenwich

Sep 5, 2008

I have been dealing with back and neck problems for a couple of years. I knew there must be a good dictation software out there and MacSpeech is it! As I am on the computer almost 8 hours a day, this is a lifesaver. It is much more accurate and faster than I expected. I recommend it highly, my back seems fine, and after two days of using it, I am more efficient than ever.

PS: I dictated this note in less than a minute on MacSpeech

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MacSpeech Dictate v1.5

Outstanding Program (from previous Dragon user)!!

Written by TH from Fennville

Sep 9, 2008

To qualify myself here, I have been using the PC version of Dragon Naturally Speaking Medical for 7 years, doing all my work dictations with that software. Recently switching to Mac, I heard enough concerns about previous dictation software made for the Mac. Skeptical, I tried this one, and I writing my first review to inform others who may be in similar shoes that they DID get it right this time. Appropriate expectations of voice activated dictation are needed, but I will verify that this program seems outstanding!! The training is seriously NO BIG DEAL, unlike the misconceptions many people I talk to seem to have. I speak clearly, but not with "obnoxious clarity" when dictating, and at a pace equal to my conversational pace and this program transcribes with HIGH accuracy. It does truly work!

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MacSpeech Dictate v1.5

I LOVE THIS PRODUCT!

Written by BF from Austin

Oct 7, 2008

I work in an email support environment, so I am constructing and responding to emails for over 40 hours a week. This software is a god-send! I was blown away by how accurately it dictates what I say. Not only does it type what you dictate, but you can also give it commands, such as open program, close program, copy & paste.

This is the next step in computer innovation. It really takes interacting with your computer to another level.

I am so so glad that I bought this software. It is making my life so much easier, and giving my poor hands a break. Anyone who types a lot and has access to a quiet environment to do their work will find this software to be as amazing as I have.

5 Stars!!

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MacSpeech Dictate v1.5

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 v1.5

Not ready for serious users!

Written by DW from Spokane

Oct 12, 2008

I cannot recommend this product until they finish fulfilling their obligation to create a COMPLETE application. As it stands, it is very accurate, but the correction features are almost completely missing... it's supposedly currently in beta testing, but if you check the website forum, it's a common frustration, and tech support is notoriously bad. Too bad, I could really use this product and paid for the upgrade from iListen, which was slow to train and very inaccurate. This technology is almost there, and this may be a struggling company trying to make good on their claim to fame, but it is not, at this point, a tool for the power user, or anyone who needs to do a lot of training with the use of technical/medical terms.

Do not buy it yet... someday, it may be a wonderful app, but right now, it's like buying a Porsche without a reverse gear. Lots of fun until you have to actually make a correction.

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MacSpeech Dictate v1.5

Just got it and I love it

Written by RJ from North Las Vegas

Oct 13, 2008

This product is phenomenal, it works right out of the box it took about five minutes to set up and I'm dictating and it recognizes my voice it's just phenomenal. I recommend this product to anyone, I am truly amazed that it is working to swell clearly just five minutes I installed it and I am writing this message to you right now I'm amazed. I'm never going to have to type ever again I highly recommend this product. Thank you

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MacSpeech Dictate v1.5

Kept me on the job

Written by RW from Champaign

Oct 19, 2008

I had a serious tablesaw accident -- two fingers lost and reattached on my dominant hand. A long rehab period meant I couldn't type for months. I purchased and installed Dictate. After a very short training session and loading some examples of my written work on day one, I was dictating e-mails, letters, and manuscripts with approximately 95% accuracy. I could even use technical terms and proper names. I cannot say enough about this product.

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MacSpeech Dictate v1.5

Life saver

Written by MH from Sellersburg

Oct 19, 2008

I had an accident and my arm was incapacitated for 3 months. This package saved me. I would avoid the optional headset that they provide - difference in software performance between that and the Logitech Premium Notebook Headset is highly significant. Should note that I'm trilingual, my accent fluctuates a lot, and regardless it works great 99% of the time. The main weakness at this time is the inability to edit vocabulary (remove words) and do more voice training if needed. I would be willing to read 10 more documents to get the accuracy up, especially if they were docs that I had written. Ability to load docs that you have written is there but there is no reading them to the system. I'm amazed and tempted to get the French and Spanish dictionaries as well.

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MacSpeech Dictate v1.5

excellence

Written by AB

Nov 3, 2008

I'm rating MacSpeech Dictate a 4 out of 5 stars because some words it doesn't understand what I'm saying, but all in all it's the best program. I love it and would not send it back, it's a great investment especially for me being a university student, it types faster than I can type which is really cool, I am actually using it right now to type this review which is also fastly done. Great product I love it I would encourage others to buy it, personally I bought it because it's faster to speak into a mic than it is to type one at least in my case. to install this program it to under five minutes, it recognized my voice really fast which was amazing, because I had to write an essay. I can't say anything bad about this product, some people wrote battered reviews about it but I don't understand why they were having so much trouble with it. If you're looking for a product that types faster than you I suggest you go to Apple and buy the product it's great.

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MacSpeech Dictate v1.5

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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