Voice Recognition Software
May 26, 2008 | 8:22 am
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Aug 14, 2008 | 7:37 pm
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I used the PREVIOUS version of the best VR for MAC, which was called MACSPEECH which was pretty darn good.
At macworld this year, Macspeech introduced a NEW version of Macspeech called Macspeech Dictate. This product NOW uses the nuance/dragon VR engine, and apparently GREATLY improves accuracy. I haven't bought the upgrade yet (I should have, it was only 79$ at the time) but my FATHER bought it and said it really improved his use of the product. And, he thought it was pretty good to begin with.
I haven't been out there yet to try it, but I'll try in next month when I am on the east coast. Reviews show it to be quite good.
There is no longer a DRAGON/NUANCE product for MAC sold by Nuance.
At macworld this year, Macspeech introduced a NEW version of Macspeech called Macspeech Dictate. This product NOW uses the nuance/dragon VR engine, and apparently GREATLY improves accuracy. I haven't bought the upgrade yet (I should have, it was only 79$ at the time) but my FATHER bought it and said it really improved his use of the product. And, he thought it was pretty good to begin with.
I haven't been out there yet to try it, but I'll try in next month when I am on the east coast. Reviews show it to be quite good.
There is no longer a DRAGON/NUANCE product for MAC sold by Nuance.
Aug 14, 2008 | 7:58 pm
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I run the PC version in an XP virtual machine using VM Ware. I use either a microphone or a Sony digital recorder. It works pretty well. The newer Macs have enough performance to do VR in the virtual machine with decent speed, at least with XP. Im not sure I would want to run it in Vista that way.
Aug 14, 2008 | 8:52 pm
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On Windows Vista the speech recognition is built in and works great! I have been utilizing it over the last week and only a few minor issues, like not working to type text here in a forum or elsewhere if using Firefox, and not typing body of mails in Thunderbird, but most
other apps seem to work just fine.
I really like the fact that you can speak in full sentence structure and it accurately understands in most cases even for complex words like know, wind, effect/affect.
other apps seem to work just fine.
I really like the fact that you can speak in full sentence structure and it accurately understands in most cases even for complex words like know, wind, effect/affect.
Aug 15, 2008 | 12:11 am
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I run the PC version in an XP virtual machine using VM Ware. I use either a microphone or a Sony digital recorder. It works pretty well. The newer Macs have enough performance to do VR in the virtual machine with decent speed, at least with XP. Im not sure I would want to run it in Vista that way.
This past week version 10 has been announced. I am not sure enough of it to invest even the $99.00 they are asking for upgrade ... unless I get some tricks!
Thanks for a response if you have the time!