Comments on: MacSpeech Dictate review

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:23:00 +0000

Why no dates on these comments?

By: Mike Priestley

Mike Priestley — Wed, 19 May 2010 06:38:49 +0000

Mac deserves better.

By: Joseph Senecal

Joseph Senecal — Tue, 18 May 2010 17:28:41 +0000

How about it’s simply the best Dictation program ever available on a Mac? I’ve used all the preceding programs, iListen, IBM’s Via Voice, and even Power Secretary. Dictate is the best and easiest program for Dictation that has ever existed on the Mac. I even use it for dictating program code.

I’ve never used Dragon Naturally Speaking, so I can’t compare Dictate to that program. But Naturally Speeaking and Dictate are now owned by the same program, with separate development teams each striving to make the best product possible for their platform.

By: Mike Priestley

Mike Priestley — Tue, 18 May 2010 15:42:17 +0000

People who have given this product a positive review must have a strange sense of humour. The complexity of the commands and the “Cache” dependence of the product is a nightmare. I recently moved across to Mac and as a PC user I had Dragon naturally speaking for a number of years. Simple commands like “cap that”, the ability to start dictating anywhere in a document, including tables. I have been working on a document all day and not more than 20% of it is done using Mac Speech Dictate, because it is too quirky and too complicated.

This product must have escaped because it is not ready for ordinary people to use.

By: MacSpeech Dictate: A year later, do I still use it?

MacSpeech Dictate: A year later, do I still use it? — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:05:09 +0000

[...] Almost a year ago I did an epic review of MacSpeech Dictate, the speech to text application for the Mac. My conclusion from last year: MacSpeech cannot be used [...]

By: Steve Borth

Steve Borth — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:11:12 +0000

How the heck does this microphone know, how to type the words right after you speak into it?