[MV] macspeech vs dns

[Chuck Rogers]

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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