David and Katie talk about speech recognition software for the Mac, focusing on the powerful dictation applications MacSpeech Dictate and MacSpeech Scribe.
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One “downside” to MacSpeech Dictate is that it doesn’t work well when both it and textexpander are running. Characters are transposed and textexpander snippets do not always expand properly. Hopefully a fix is in the works.
As always, great podcast. I used Dragon with a sony digital recorder and it was a great workflow: very natural for composing memos and briefs. When I switched to the Mac four years ago, I had to forgo dictation and rely solely on typing (thank you Mavis Beacon!).
MacSpeech Scribe with my iPhone may foot the bill. I really wish there was a 30 day trial period though, the videos of the product don’t make it seem ‘Mac-like’…
Thanks again,
Scott
In researching the Plantronics Calisto, I only see the Calisto Pro on http://www.plantronics.com; however macspeech.com doesn’t specifically indicate that this is a tested model. Anyone know:
1. if there is a difference
2. does the Calisto Pro work with MSD
Was looking for the tip on the Automator tool to turn RSS into speech, then to itunes? Can’t find it.
Love the podcast, deeper, darker tips
David and Katie — Thanks for the podcast. Several of us working on MacSpeech products even learned some new ideas from you two.
@Jack – MacSpeech Dictate requires a USB microphone connection. For example, the Plantronics Calisto itself can only be used along with a corresponding Bluetooth USB Adapter. The Calisto Pro looks like the same microphone, but you must have a USB Adapter plugged into your Mac for it to work. Also, yes, any text macro, auto-text or auto-type applications or features may collide with MacSpeech Dictate as it attempts to type what you said.
Hope this helps. Thanks!