[MV] macspeech vs dns

[Kai-Man Lee]

Hi Nina,

If you want to do medical dictation, buy the DNS medical professional
version which has the medical vocabulary included.  It is far superior to
iListen for this purpose.  You'll need to partition your MacBook Pro drive
with Boot Camp and install Windows.  Or you could use one of the
virtualization programs, like Parallels Desktop for Mac.

I am devoted Mac guy,  but for this purpose, it's really a no-brainer - DNS
is better.  I am an ER physician and have used my laptop for medical
dictation on and off for a couple years.  The fact that iListen doesn't have
a medical vocabulary that you can buy puts it out of the running.  Teaching
any dictation program a specialized vocabulary is way too much trouble.

Anyway, that's what I'd recommend.

Good Luck,

Kai-Man Lee, MD




> From: "Nina Sugar, MD" <ninasugarmd at mac.com>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss speech recognition on Macintosh."
> <macvoice at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:01:45 -0700
> To: <macvoice at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: [MV] macspeech vs dns
> 
> 
>> From: "Nina Sugar, MD" <ninasugarmd at mac.com>
>> To: <macvoice-owner at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Date: September 16, 2007 01:21:34 AM EDT
>> Subject: macspeech vs dns
>> 
>> Help please!
>> I need to buy a voice recogniton/dictation program for macbook pro w/intel
>> 2ghz core duo processor.
>> I am running osx v 10.4.10.
>> What are the pro and cons of macspeech/ilisten vs dns?(I believe I would have
>> to get a windows running program for the DNS, and I am not sure I could run
>> it. I love my mac and the os systems, and have never been able to understand
>> windows)
>> I need to be able to dictate patient notes,  on a daily basis, and writing
>> has become difficult due to back injuries from being rear ended and now wrist
>> tendonitis. Any information/suggestions /reccomendations would be greatly
>> appreciated. Thanks!!
>> nina sugar
>> 
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