Mac Speech DICTATE Released

Mac Speech Voice Recognition

Some of you out there that are writing your own newsletters or typing into your blogs daily know what "finger-tunnel" is by now.  It’s the direct cousin of carpal-tunnel (my personal/medical opinion).  That is why I recommend and use Nuance’s Dragon Naturally Speaking to "talk" my entries into my computer, instead of typing them in manually.  Then I heard that some of you out there snared at my article on Dragon because it wasn’t available for Macintosh. 

Well, that all changed today as Nuance released the Mac Version of its program, that allows you to plug in a headset and microphone and talk your way through pages and pages of content.  The new release is very easy to install and configuration (given that it is a Mac product), is of course very easy.

I find that some of the best material that goes on paper, can sometimes be accomplished by not looking at your monitor and watching the text go by.  What I do is make sure the page is ready to go and then I turn away from the computer and look out the window and talk.  It clears my mind and allows me to focus on the subject and topic, instead of how the little cursor thing is moving along the monitor.

Something else to keep in mind when using speech recognition tools like Mac Speech, is that you have to take the time to input names that the program would not be aware of.  Remember, it’s still a machine so you have to tell it that Best Buy is a store and not a combination of words for example.  Other than that, I have always been very satisfied with Nuance products because they are made from the coals of the lessons they learned over the years of what speech recognition should be like.  Meaning that when the company first started, the program did not do anywhere near as well as it does now. 

And by the way, just to put some statistics into perspective, I find that even though I type about 80 words a minute, I can talk into Mac Speech DICTATE and get results back at about 180 words a minute.  Twice the speed and no contact with the keyboard!  Okay, I’m satisfied. 

This article was written using Mac Speech, just to see if it was that different than Dragon.  It’s to close to call for me.

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