Here is another happy customer:

"Interestingly, the motherboard in my (one year old) MacBook Pro decided to
die on Tuesday and I only got it back yesterday afternoon. In the meantime I
had to use Dragon 9, medical edition on my Fujitsu PC. Switching back to the
Mac made me realise that the recognition on the Mac using MacSpeech Dictate
for non-technical language is better than it is on the PC, despite my
'mature' files on the PC. This is encouraging :-)"

What else can I say?  Is it the Mac or is it Dictate?  In my honest opinion, I believe it is the combination.

John Khoo
MacSense Australia

The transcription pack for Dictate is scheduled but release date is unknown at this point in time because only a small number of users require it.  There are higher priorities that precede transcription unfortunately.  The only way to get transcription higher in the priority list is for those who wants it to write to MacSpeech indicating the need.

John Khoo
MacSense Australia
jkhoo@macsense.com.au

[WILL]

Dave has done an excellent job in his earlier post of quickly informing his customers of the problems experienced by a small number of customers who may have received a bad Data Disc. 

He has posted this URL:   
http://www.macspeech.com/article_info.php?articles_id=296

to assist affected customers to quickly remedy this problem by obtaining the MacSpeech First Aid application S/W.  We have also posted this link on our own website and have quickly remedied the problem experienced by the few unfortunate customers and whom have contacted us.  It appears that we too may have been unfortunate to have received the tail end of this global Bad Disc issue.

The purpose of this post to clarify a few things:

All affected customers can still obtain their replacement Data Disc from MacSense Australia and not from the USA as recently reported by one Media source - "Faulty discs are being replaced, although the process, which is handled from the US, appears to be slower than some would like". 

I can personally assure all Australian and NZ customers that we pride ourselves as a valued added and service oriented distributor.  We WILL take stock from inventory to get an existing customer up and running at the expense of new sales.  We just ask new customers to have patience with us when we run out of stock of this popular product.  It is a fine art trying to balance supply and demands

John Khoo
MacSense Australia

Hi John
 
You might be interested to know that I put the new MacSpeech Dictate through its paces over the weekend.  We have a tough test passage that we have used previously in our research (see our past speech recognition research on our web site).  The result was very impressive.  With the minimum training and no further practice, I achieve 97% accuracy!  That is higher than we have ever achieved with any speech recognition software, Windows or Mac based.
 
I will write a more detailed review later.
 
Regards
 
Dr Graeme W. Smith
Ability Technology
29 Frenchs Forest Rd
Seaforth NSW 2092 Australia
Ph:         02-99079770
Fax:       02-99079599
Web:      www.ability.org.au
 

The above is posted with the kind permission of the author.  We have had many positive feedbacks (too many to post actually) here in Australia/NZ as were the same experienced elsewhere.  The negatives (5 in total directly sent to us (all related to bad disks and bugs)) are definitely in the minority and on the bugs that have been widely publicised already.  That's not bad considering we have shipped 668 copies (since late March) and would have shipped more if we did not have constrained supply.

We would welcome all comments (Good or Bad) as that's the only way we will know how to improve this great product.

John (MacSense Australia - MacSpeech's Distributor)

This is John from MacSense Australia, distributor representative of MacSpeech for Australia and New Zealand.  Dictate should be shipping in Australia shortly (some time next week is my expectation).

We will try to fulfill all existing iListen customers crossgrades first to reward them for their past business and patience.  Then we will fulfill new customers orders via our channel partners on a FIFO basis.  So it is important to place your order early to secure supply.

Dictate will continue to evolve and it will automatically search for new updates every time it is launched (or it can be done manually, otherwise).  All such updates will be free unless it is a major Upgrade.

Please don't hesitate to contact us on 02 9798 3288 or sales@macsense.com.au if there are any questions.

This may be abit dated but it is a goodie

http://www.toddsampson.com/2008/02/10/macspeech-dictate-out-friday/

Need to know more information about iListen then talk to the guys at MacSense in Sydney. They are the distributor here in Australia for iListen and soon Dictate and have a wealth of knowledge on Mac software and accessories.

www.MacSense.com.au

MacSpeech is discontinuing iListen as they are about to start shipping their new product, MacSpeech Dictate.  MS Dictate has won the Macworld Best of Show award 2008 at the recent Macworld San Francisco exhibition in January 2008.  All existing iListen customers can crossgrade to MS Dictate for $49 if they have recently purchased iListen this year.  There are still a few iListen licenses left and it is the cheaper means of getting MS Dictate as the customer ends up with two S/W packages and is still cheaper than buying MS Dictate on its own.