[MV] Which Voice Recog Software for Transcribing

[Chuck Rogers]

Cliff (and everyone else):

IBM stopped developing speech recognition software for Macs and PCs  
in April 2003. Scansoft has the distribution rights, but there has  
been no improvement in the software since then. Essentially, for  
anyone interested in using speech recognition on a modern Mac,  
iListen is the only choice on the Mac, just as Dragon  
NaturallySpeaking is pretty much the only choice on the PC.

We have several doctors and lawyers who use our software every day.  
We do not feel that professional vocabularies do a very good job,  
considering that most users only use 500-1000 of the 10,000 to 15,000  
words that are installed. With iListen, our approach is to allow the  
user to add as many words as they would like using our innovative  
"Learn My Writing Style" feature.

This feature learns new words in context, and thus does not degrade  
the accuracy of the profile into which they are installed.


Best Regards,

Chuck Rogers, Chief Evangelist
MacSpeech, Inc.


On Feb 23, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote:

> Thank you all for the comments, advise and direction.
>
> I've looked at the iLive site.
>
> In principle I like the idea of Mac based software.
> Though no one mentioned the IBM software or others.
> Are Dragon and iLife at the top of the heap?
>
> Comments suggested a difference in performance
> if one speaks directly to the computer
> compared to recorded voice.
> Is that correct?
>
> Judging from the Legal and Medical versions of this type of software
> I surmise that these disciplines find voice recog the most useful.
> Do attorney's and physicians dictate directly to the computer?
> Are these more expensive versions of the software more effective?
>
> Cliff
>
>
>
> At 7:55 PM -0800 2/22/06, macvoice- 
> request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:25:14 -0800
>> From: Cliff Rediger <redicliff at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: [MV] Which Voice Recog Software for Transcribing
>> To: MacVoice List <macvoice at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
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>> New to list.
>> running Tiger 10.4.5 on MacMini
>>
>> Wonder if I can receive comparative comments
>> on the best of the voice recognition software
>> for transcribing/dictation.
>>
>> Perused the archives and was surprised to see suggestions that
>> transcription could be very challenging.
>>
>> All advise appreciated.
>> Thank you.
>
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