[MV] iListen and Snow Leopard?

[Michael Gherrity]

Thanks for getting back to me. Either you procrastinate nearly as much  
as I do or there is something wrong with the server. I sent that  
message three months ago.

I'm still using Leopard. Is the upgrade to Snow Leopard worth while?

I use MacSpeech Dictate and have read that Dragon Dictate is not too  
different. Is that true?

I can see that a large selection of text macros can enable me to use  
the Terminal application. But that sounds like a lot of work. I use  
iListen in spelling mode and vim for programming. Can I do this with  
Dragon Dictate?

On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Joseph Senecal wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> I clicked on my old version 1.8 iListen. It started to launch but  
> got stuck loading my custom cursor commands. I'll wait a while to  
> see if it ever finishes launching. Meanwhile, I'll write about  
> Dragon Dictate...
>
> Dragon Dictate can indeed dictate into Terminal, I do so frequently,  
> having a large selection of text macros so I can say "List Detailed  
> Directory" to type "ls -lh". Comparing iListen to Dictate in  
> dictating to terminal, you'll noticed these differences:
> 1) Dictate is more accurate, you'll need to make fewer corrections
> 2) Corrections are easier to make
> 3) Dictate garbles text when correcting in terminal. This is because  
> Dictate selects the text to be removed and deletes it all at once  
> where iListen deletes text one character at a time.
> 4) Dictate sometimes insists that a word in a text macro must be  
> capitalized. When that happens, when the next phrase is dictated  
> (such as new line), the text macro gets duplicated (because of the  
> above problem). The first copy is the original, the second has a  
> word capitalized. A work around is to capitalize that word in the  
> text macro (where possible).
>
> In general, I'm using dictation for coding programs, including  
> terminal. Dictate has some problems with both Terminal and Eclipse  
> (the IDE I'm using). But overall the improved accuracy and ease of  
> correction makes it worth dealing with the problems for me. When  
> Dictate makes a mistake in terminal (which doesn't happen nearly as  
> often as it did with iListen), I just correct the mistake, cancel  
> the line (voice command for ctl-c), then start over.
>
> While typing this, iListen has moved on. I'll send a follow up post  
> when it finishes, including a relaunch to see if it's consistently  
> so slow to launch.
>
> Joe
>
> On Oct 26, 2010, at 12:39 AM, Michael Gherrity wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does iListen work on Snow Leopard? I am currently using it on  
>> Leopard. I use it in the Terminal application for UNIX commands.  
>> For that matter, does Dragon Dictate work in the Terminal  
>> application? For UNIX commands?
>>
>> Mike
>>
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