[MV] Dictate shipping

[tscheresky at micron.com]

Bundling is a sales gimmick.  You bundle a good product with a marginal
one, and charge more.  Can you say ViaVoice?  If you use voice
recognition you probably already have a good microphone, and you know
what you like in a microphone and don't want someone choosing one for
you.  MacSpeech made the right decision by not including a microphone
with Dictate and charging more.

Todd

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:macvoice-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com] On Behalf Of
Chuck Rogers
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:25 PM
To: A place to discuss speech recognition on Macintosh.
Subject: Re: [MV] Dictate shipping

Damien (and everyone else):

It really is pretty simple math: at $79 there would be no way we could
afford to also include a headset. Also, since the cross grade ONLY
applies to people who already have iListen, many people would prefer not
to have a second microphone.

To be honest, we really never thought anyone would think twice about it
since, if they already had iListen, they already had a mic.

But I have forwarded your message to the person in charge of our web
site, so perhaps they will put something up.


Best Regards,

Chuck Rogers, Chief Evangelist
MacSpeech, Inc.




On Feb 20, 2008, at 7:56 PM, Damien Fox wrote:

> that's news to me:  I bought a "cross-grade" (after putting in about 
> $500 into various iListen versions over the years to support MacSpeech

> and try them out - I use Dragon) and saw nothing about not  getting a 
> mic.  That's another example of the communications that macspeech 
> really needs to clean up.  good guys, great stuff, but it feels a bit 
> like a hype & bait & switch.  not fully, mind you, but it has that 
> same taste to it, even though it's only likely an accident in the 
> awesome blizzard of attention since macworld.
>
> -damien
>
>
> On 20-Feb-08, at 6:41 PM, Chuck Rogers wrote:
>
>> All:
>>
>> This is correct. Cross grades assume you already have iListen, and 
>> therefore already have a MacSpeech-certified microphone. There is no 
>> way we could afford to include a high-quality microphone at a price 
>> of $79.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Chuck Rogers, Chief Evangelist
>> MacSpeech, Inc.
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