![]() It takes 'work' in that the program will only attain a very high level of recognition accuracy if you constantly train and re-train it by correcting errors as they occur. If they don't, then you will probably never get that particular program to work well for you. ![]() ![]() It takes 'luck' in that you will only get good results if your voice and style of speech matches the model in the program well. Here it is bundled with a bunch of other software for only $50:įinally, I should point out that no matter which dictation/transcription solution you go for, there is always a fair amount of both luck and work involved in getting the product to work acceptably for you. The good news is that there is a dynamite deal going on right now for Parallels that includes a bunch of other nice software as a package deal: If you decide that you want to run Dragon/Win on your Macintosh, you will need a virtualization program (Bootcamp, Parallels or Fusion), a copy of Windows, and an Intel-based Macintosh. I don't know if MacSpeech Dictate has feature-parity with Dragon yet, but I do know that they released an update to the product just this past week, and it is now reportedly a very useable product. This caused quite a bit of hard feelings among some users. The performance was great, but it wasn't feature-complete because it was rushed to market. ![]() MacSpeech came out with MacSpeech Dictate (using the Dragon recognition engine) about a year and a half ago. Several users on the MacVoice discussion list report that they are using Dragon Dictate running under Windows in virtualization on their Macs with no problem. So I answer questions about this all the time.) (I have an interest in this topic because I'm the head of a huge user group for Mac-using attorneys, and many attorneys prefer to dictate rather than type their work. There is an entire discussion list devoted to voice recognition/transcription on the Macintosh: ![]()
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