[MV] macspeech vs dns

tscheresky at micron.com tscheresky at micron.com
Wed Sep 19 12:24:28 PDT 2007


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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[mailto:macvoice-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com] On Behalf Of
Chuck Rogers
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 1:18 PM
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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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