Dragon NaturallySpeaking, developed by Nuance software, is one of the world’s best speech recognition applications for Windows – and my favorite, too. If you’ve ever tried Windows Vista’s built-in speech recognition, you would know how bad it is – but this is not the case with Dragon. NaturallySpeaking does what the name says, you speak naturally, and it understands you perfectly. Their technology is way ahead of anything Microsoft or Apple has ever included in their operating systems. MacSpeech have just signed a license with Nuance to bring the software to Mac, under the name Dictate. As you may know, MacSpeech have had another product for quite some time now called iListen. Current customers of iListen are being offered a discount on Dictate’s price ($199) for $99, as they are stopping development of iListen. If you bought iListen in 2008, then you can get it for just $29.
MacSpeech assures that Dictate will be just as good as Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Windows. “Now for the first time, Mac users can begin dictating straight into their applications with very little time spent training the software to recognize their voice.” Dictate has already won the ‘Macworld 2008 Best of Show’ award, so I’m sure this is going to be one 2008′s best Mac apps. I can’t wait to try it out.
Via [MacUser]
this is a question, rather than a comment: is it possible to use the MacSpeech softare with a Sony voice recorder and convert recorded speech from the recorder into text on the Mac?
Same comment as Dr Chris – will it convert voice recorder data to text??
Same comment as the 2 gentlemen above
I wish to know whether "macspeech" can support aother languages, namely French.
Thank you for your answer !