[MV] MacSpeech Dictate

[Kai-Man Lee]

Chuck,

Where is the MacWorld Expo crossover special?  I don't see it on the
Macspeech website?

Kai-Man


> From: Chuck Rogers <chuck.rogers at macspeech.com>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss speech recognition on Macintosh."
> <macvoice at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:06:16 -0800
> To: "A place to discuss speech recognition on Macintosh."
> <macvoice at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: [MV] MacSpeech Dictate
> 
> All:
> 
> Sorry I have not posted to the list sooner - it has been a very busy
> Macworld, as you can imagine!
> 
> By now, most of you probably know, we announced a new product at
> Macworld Expo this week - MacSpeech Dictate. I wanted to give you some
> of the details about this exciting new product.
> 
> - MacSpeech Dictate is NOT "Dragon on the Mac" anymore than iListen
> was "Philips on the Mac." Yes, we are using the incredible Dragon
> NaturallySpeaking speech engine, but that is where the resemblance
> stops. Basically, we feed the audio into the engine, and text comes
> out. What is done with the text is 100% Macintosh code written by us.
> Not one line of code from any of Dragon's software programs or from
> iListen is used in this new program.
> 
> - MacSpeech Dictate is Intel only, but it will work on any Intel-based
> Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher with at least 1GB of RAM.
> 
> - MacSpeech Dictate will ship with 6 versions of English: US, UK,
> Australian, Indian, Southeast Asian, and Teen.
> 
> - Later this year we will be releasing versions for French, German,
> Italian, and Spanish.
> 
> - Later this year we will be releasing Medical and Legal vocabularies.
> 
> - Training literally takes only 5 minutes for most people. Those with
> unique vocal characteristics or accents that do not fall into one of
> the regional English language models may need to read another story or
> two to achieve maximum accuracy, but even for those folks, accuracy
> will be better than a fully trained profile in iListen after only 5
> minutes of training.
> 
> - MacSpeech Dictate 1.0 will ship in mid-February. It's retail price
> will be $199. Anyone who already has iListen can crossgrade to the new
> program for $99. Through next Friday, we are running a Macworld Expo
> crossgrade special for existing iListen owners: $79 plus shipping.
> This is a special offer that expires next Friday and is a pre-order.
> There will not be a download option because the program installs over
> 1GB of data on your hard drive. It will be possible to download
> upgrades, however.
> 
> - Due to the switch to a new engine, we are no longer shipping copies
> of iListen. iListen is available in retail stores and online through
> many outlets, including the Apple store. iListen remains a viable
> option for anyone running non-Intel-based Macs.
> 
> We are thrilled about this new product. I have been doing demos on the
> show floor every day, and even though my voice is getting hoarse, I am
> still getting near 100% accuracy even when the show floor is noisy!
> 
> I'd like to stress that MacSpeech Dictate is a 100% Mac-only program,
> written from the ground up for Mac OS X. I hope I have answered most
> of your questions. If not, please feel free to either email me
> personally at chuck.rogers at macspeech.com or post to the list. Keep in
> mind I am at Macworld Expo and may not be able to reply right away.
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Chuck Rogers, Chief Evangelist
> MacSpeech, Inc.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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