[MV] macspeech vs dns

[Gavin Wynford-Jones]

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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