[MV] macspeech vs dns

[Chuck Rogers]

You can manipulate the Correction interface completely by voice now,  
including the adding of words.


On Sep 19, 2007, at 2:24 PM, <tscheresky at micron.com> wrote:

> You know Chuck, iListen would be even better if you could do the  
> adding
> of words and corrections completely by voice.
>
> Todd
>
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> Chuck Rogers
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> Subject: Re: [MV] macspeech vs dns
>
> Gavin:
>
> I appreciate your comments - and we never stop listening to our
> customers. But it certainly doesn't take 4 minutes to add a word, and
> there is no need to break your dictation rhythm. You dictate, iListen
> gets something wrong, then you add all the words in correction. At  
> best,
> it should take 10 or 15 seconds to add a new word in this method.
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Chuck Rogers, Chief Evangelist
> MacSpeech, Inc.
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 19, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Gavin Wynford-Jones wrote:
>
>> Chuck, each word you have to add and correct takes a finite time  
>> to do
>
>> (I took a ballpark figure of 4 minutes). Worse, each new term breaks
>> the dictation rhythm which further adds to the lost time.
>>
>> Dragon (Scansoft, Nuance...) has a vocabulary that is a bit of a
>> catch-all. If so many doctors are using or are interested in iListen
>> then having a series of very specialised vocabularies makes
>> sense: one for cardiology, one for urology etc. Each would be between
>> 500 and 1200 words.
>>
>> Apart from the lack of a French version, the most frequent reason I
>> hear for not buying iListen is "lack of specialised vocabularies".
>> (And I'm not just talking medical here, lawyers and others need 'em.)
>>
>> To counter your Gainesville example: I had a DNS client, a lawyer,  
>> who
>
>> swore by DNS. I told him about iListen when he was thinking of moving
>> to Mac and tried to do a little evangelism for MacSpeech. He did a
>> little maths: it would cost him at least CHF 4800 in lost billable
>> time to get enough samples into iListen and run through a few  
>> pages of
>
>> dictation to get started. For that money, he could buy the DNS Legal,
>> have quite a bit of change, and still have most of his billable
>> hours... *That* is the mentality you're up against:
>> these people make very good money, so price isn't much of an object,
>> time (and therefore convenience) is.
>>
>> Gavin
>>
>> On 19 Sep 2007, at 18:53, Chuck Rogers wrote:
>>
>>> We have a doctor in Gainesville. He added words as he went. It did
>>> not take him 130 hours to add 1800 words. Not even close. He insists
>>> he didn't even notice the process. He added the word using  
>>> Correction
>
>>> or Learn My Writing Style, iListen learned it.
>>
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