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| MacSpeech Dictate | 
 enlarge | From: MacSpeech, Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: $199.99
Buy New: $155.00
You Save: $44.99 (22%)
New (14) Used (1) from $155.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 38
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X Intel
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.9 x 2.5
MPN: MSDICTATE
Model: MACSPEECH DICTATE
UPC: 806709380876
EAN: 0806709380876
ASIN: B0014KJ6EQ
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not "Best In Show" but rather "Not Yet Ready For Prime Time May 12, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
"DICTATE" by MacSpeech is a tragedy! It's a tragedy for the normal user, but even moreso for the neurologically handicapped patients to whom it offered the opportunity to communicate more normally.
If you were to bundle the potentially best voice dictation application for Mac that's on the market (and probably the best on the horizon) with one of the worst customer service group you can imagine, and heat that mix with the total absence of documentation on the disc or third-party, you'd know why so many reviewers are complaining that they've been defrauded.
It's hard to assign some number of stars to an application with which you're having such a love/hate relationship. Imagine buying Mac OSX Leopard or Microsoft Office with a technical support group that knows even less than you do and no users' manuals. That'd give you a great OS or application, but it would take weeks to discover and implement one small fraction of what it's designed to do. That is why I'd put off buying DICTATE by MacSpeech until they have a product to sell. Then, I'd rush to buy it.
 Works quite well for me. May 11, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
It is the first dictation software that I've used that saves me time. It does work really quite well if you have it set up properly. I suspect, that if you are giving the software score of one out of five -- it is definite evidence that it is not set up properly. I have certainly been able to dictate this paragraph with only one or two corrections. And that is an order of magnitude better than my typing skills.
Like a number of the other reviewers, I have used iListen in the past. I was never able to put it to practical use.
Good luck, Richard Piper.
 a decent product if you don't mind slow support May 8, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
my box had no data dvd enclosed and therefore won't install. their email support form provided no email confirmation that anyone is on the case and i'm now expected to wait 72 hours for a response. truly, there should be some minimum competency level to run a company and i don't see how this company deserves to be in business. if i there was a negative star level, i'd use it.
update: Product support was pretty good once I got their attention. That did take several days but I'm satisfied with the result now. the product seems to be pretty good at recognizing speech at normal speaking speeds. As a computer programmer, I'm impressed that computers can recognize speech at all. I typed this review with Mac dictate. They made several mistakes but they're easy enough to correct, and it certainly saves my hands a lot of stress
unfortunately, the Amazon star ratings widget is broken or I'd add a couple stars.
Impressive accuracy May 7, 2008
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
I primarily purchased this program for a close friend who has poor keyboarding skills, so I've only spent a couple of days with it to test it out. Years ago I bought and used iListen on the Mac (back in the OS 9 era). Without a doubt, compared to iListen this program is lightyears ahead in terms of accuracy. After about 4 minutes of speaking into my headset mic to "train" Dictate I was ready to go. I was skeptical that such as short training session would be enough, but it hit the ground running and duplicated my every word. I'm truly amazed by its accuracy! The only flubs that are produced happen when I slur or clip my words a bit too much. Yes, it would've been better for the developers to have included "correction training" and the ability to spell out words one letter at a time (for those oddball words), but those features will be coming along in an free update soon enough. It's been fantastic for me in writing my emails and journal, so I'm joining my friend in becoming a daily user of Dictate.
 product works pretty well, but... May 6, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Called company to verify Amazon wasn't sending out bogus data discs then ordered...got a bogus data disc!!! Went through several days of customer service hassle before they finally sent me another data disc. Product works pretty well now.
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