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I am very interested in using macspeech with my olympus ds 5000. So I wait with anticipation

Here is a very quick video showing a brief demo of spelling mode and the phrase training recognition window.

MacSpeech have just released the next free upgrade for registered users of MacSpeech Dictate, version 1.2

Included in this release are bug fixes and some new functionality including Spelling Mode.

Full details in the official MacSpeech press release:

http://www.macspeech.com/article_info.php?articles_id=306

Has anyone used Mac Speech in an Excel spreadsheet? If so, how successful is it?

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

Nuance, the owners of the Dragon voice recognition engine are at the top of their game. Voice recognition is not easy and they have dedicated years to perfecting the technology.

So, when a heavyweight like Microsoft comes along and thinks its easy it can go badly wrong. Have a look at the video below when Microsoft did a demo of their voice recognition to the world.

MacSpeech Dictate - Powered by Dragon from Nuance :-)

[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

G'day Alistair

Currently this functionality known as deferred transcription is not available with MacSpeech Dictate. But, it is coming and is coming soon I have heard, soon being before the end of this year.

This is a function which I too am very keen on. I will post here as soon as its available.

Hi - very interested in MacSpeech Dictate but wondering if there is any facility in the program for transcribing from digital recording, as there was with iListen. Thanks, aloha, Alistair