Comments on: Voice Recognition Review: MacSpeech Dictate and RevoLabs xTag Wireless Microphone http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/2008/05/voice-recognition-review-macspeech-dictate-and-revolabs-xtab-wireless-microphone/ Published by the Stasiuk Firm PC | In Colorado, Call for a Free Consultation (800) 407-0166 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:35:26 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: JimPowell http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/2008/05/voice-recognition-review-macspeech-dictate-and-revolabs-xtab-wireless-microphone/comment-page-1/#comment-378 JimPowell Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:00:57 +0000 http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/?p=147#comment-378 Excellent review.<br>I am a long time Mac user who tried Via Voice (execrable) and iListen. I must have spent 40-50 hours trying to train iListen until I realized that it was uneducable--no matter how long I spent, it still missed the same words. I went to Boot Camp, then Parallels, then VM Fusion so I could run DNS, which is vastly better than iListen. With DNS 10, I get better than 99 % accuracy. But, I don't like having to switch back and forth between Mac and XP. How can it take MacSpeech 8 months to add a correction feature, when they had one in iListen (even though it did not work) and DNS has had one for donkey's years? This borders on false advertising. Excellent review.
I am a long time Mac user who tried Via Voice (execrable) and iListen. I must have spent 40-50 hours trying to train iListen until I realized that it was uneducable–no matter how long I spent, it still missed the same words. I went to Boot Camp, then Parallels, then VM Fusion so I could run DNS, which is vastly better than iListen. With DNS 10, I get better than 99 % accuracy. But, I don't like having to switch back and forth between Mac and XP. How can it take MacSpeech 8 months to add a correction feature, when they had one in iListen (even though it did not work) and DNS has had one for donkey's years? This borders on false advertising.

]]> By: TomaszStasiuk http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/2008/05/voice-recognition-review-macspeech-dictate-and-revolabs-xtab-wireless-microphone/comment-page-1/#comment-361 TomaszStasiuk Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:01:59 +0000 http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/?p=147#comment-361 The problem is, I do not have high hopes for Dictate adding "missing" features any time soon. The newsletters I receive are jut full of marketing speak and self praise. I can understand this from a marketing standpoint. But I am already a client! How about telling me when I can expect some improvement. MacSpeach is charging Dragon level prices, I expect comparable functionality. <br><br>At this point, I find myself using Dictate infrequently. <br><br>David Pouge's recent vidcast on the voice recognition built into Vista is just depressing for Mac users. That is a leap ahead of Macs!<br><br>Maybe snow leopard will provide voice recognition, but since it not supposed to be a feature packed upgrade, I wont hold my breath. <br><br>Vista today: voice recognition integrated in the OS<br>Windows 7 (upcoming): built-in multi-touch.<br><br>I love my Mac, but I hate to see Apple falling behind on features. Come on boffiins, lets get this sorted! The problem is, I do not have high hopes for Dictate adding “missing” features any time soon. The newsletters I receive are jut full of marketing speak and self praise. I can understand this from a marketing standpoint. But I am already a client! How about telling me when I can expect some improvement. MacSpeach is charging Dragon level prices, I expect comparable functionality.

At this point, I find myself using Dictate infrequently.

David Pouge's recent vidcast on the voice recognition built into Vista is just depressing for Mac users. That is a leap ahead of Macs!

Maybe snow leopard will provide voice recognition, but since it not supposed to be a feature packed upgrade, I wont hold my breath.

Vista today: voice recognition integrated in the OS
Windows 7 (upcoming): built-in multi-touch.

I love my Mac, but I hate to see Apple falling behind on features. Come on boffiins, lets get this sorted!

]]> By: Stan Winikoff http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/2008/05/voice-recognition-review-macspeech-dictate-and-revolabs-xtab-wireless-microphone/comment-page-1/#comment-360 Stan Winikoff Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:27:47 +0000 http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/?p=147#comment-360 I would have loved to have completed the switch from PC to Mac and the only indispensable program was voice dictation. I eagerly purchased Dragon dictate which I found out purchased the dictation engine used by Dragon but NOT the correction features. They rushed the program out to capture sales dollars but this will have the long term effect of having the product suffer from the inevitable and always negative comparison to Dragon naturally. Voice recognition is OK in fact. marco creation does not work more often than it does work. My recommendation to others has been to not buy dictate until the program gets better. I would have loved to have completed the switch from PC to Mac and the only indispensable program was voice dictation. I eagerly purchased Dragon dictate which I found out purchased the dictation engine used by Dragon but NOT the correction features. They rushed the program out to capture sales dollars but this will have the long term effect of having the product suffer from the inevitable and always negative comparison to Dragon naturally. Voice recognition is OK in fact. marco creation does not work more often than it does work. My recommendation to others has been to not buy dictate until the program gets better.

]]> By: Robert Farvolden http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/2008/05/voice-recognition-review-macspeech-dictate-and-revolabs-xtab-wireless-microphone/comment-page-1/#comment-202 Robert Farvolden Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:36:33 +0000 http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/?p=147#comment-202 This was really helpful. Thanks very much This was really helpful. Thanks very much

]]> By: Robert Farvolden http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/2008/05/voice-recognition-review-macspeech-dictate-and-revolabs-xtab-wireless-microphone/comment-page-1/#comment-327 Robert Farvolden Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:36:33 +0000 http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/?p=147#comment-327 This was really helpful. Thanks very much This was really helpful. Thanks very much

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