Comments on: MacSpeech Dictate http://www.productivity501.com/macspeech-dictate/4821/ Pieces of the productivity puzzle. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:55:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Sheadhttp://www.productivity501.com/macspeech-dictate/4821/comment-page-1/#comment-152917 Mark Shead Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:17:09 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/?p=4821#comment-152917 Glad to hear it is working for you. I'd be interested in hearing what you think after using it for a few months. I use Dictate when I'm writing something that can be very rough. If I know I'll have time to edit it or have someone else who can edit it. Otherwise I think it is faster and more accurate to just type. I'm using a Plantronics headset that hooks into the USB port and it seems to work pretty well. Oh one tip: Make sure you turn it off when you aren't using it. This week I wiped out a different document accidentally because I didn't realize the program was still listening and I stopped to talk to my three year old daughter. Glad to hear it is working for you. I’d be interested in hearing what you think after using it for a few months. I use Dictate when I’m writing something that can be very rough. If I know I’ll have time to edit it or have someone else who can edit it. Otherwise I think it is faster and more accurate to just type. I’m using a Plantronics headset that hooks into the USB port and it seems to work pretty well.

Oh one tip: Make sure you turn it off when you aren’t using it. This week I wiped out a different document accidentally because I didn’t realize the program was still listening and I stopped to talk to my three year old daughter.

]]> By: Nathanielhttp://www.productivity501.com/macspeech-dictate/4821/comment-page-1/#comment-152916 Nathaniel Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:12:46 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/?p=4821#comment-152916 I am leaving this comment using MacSpeech Dictate. I purchased a pair of Sennheiser's PC 350s and MacSpeech from Amazon.com. It took me a while to figure out how to connect the microphone to my MacBook. It turns out you need some type of amplifier or perhaps a USB sound card that is portable. if you're using a MacBook Pro the line in the microphone will not work with the Sennheiser microphone. Fortunately when I ordered MacSpeech Dictate it came with a set of USB head phones. Included with the USB headset with an adapter that I could plug in to my USB port on the MacBook Pro and plug in the microphone and line in ports. It's going to take some time to get used to but I absolutely love it so far accuracy is absolutely amazing! I am leaving this comment using MacSpeech Dictate. I purchased a pair of Sennheiser’s PC 350s and MacSpeech from Amazon.com. It took me a while to figure out how to connect the microphone to my MacBook. It turns out you need some type of amplifier or perhaps a USB sound card that is portable. if you’re using a MacBook Pro the line in the microphone will not work with the Sennheiser microphone.

Fortunately when I ordered MacSpeech Dictate it came with a set of USB head phones. Included with the USB headset with an adapter that I could plug in to my USB port on the MacBook Pro and plug in the microphone and line in ports.

It’s going to take some time to get used to but I absolutely love it so far accuracy is absolutely amazing!

]]> By: Making Sense and Dictation Software : Productivity501http://www.productivity501.com/macspeech-dictate/4821/comment-page-1/#comment-127962 Making Sense and Dictation Software : Productivity501 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:35:07 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/?p=4821#comment-127962 [...] other day my assistant told me, “When I proof your writing I can tell if you used Dictate. Usually you make sense.” Every once in a while she will run into a sentence that she [...] [...] other day my assistant told me, “When I proof your writing I can tell if you used Dictate. Usually you make sense.” Every once in a while she will run into a sentence that she [...]

]]> By: Bahamabobhttp://www.productivity501.com/macspeech-dictate/4821/comment-page-1/#comment-127413 Bahamabob Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:54:27 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/?p=4821#comment-127413 This is the most balanced article on MacSpeech I have read to date. I found this on a search. I have MS and work on WordPress. The first time I used it in WP, hoping it would work, I had technical problems. I found later that it was "an historical accident." The problem was not MacSpeech. WP requires plain text only. This seems to give it well. I do not type well. I have had both the Mac and the NatSpeaking since 1998. This is the time to get them. Back then, you had to be really bad at typing or incapable. I was a champ at that! Now it is faster than most people can type. I is also coincidendtal that my writing has increased after beginning blogging. I am today for the first time, speaking old diary entries into WordPress. Thanks for confirming this. I needed a little word. I did read two other solutions online for taking audio and transcribing on MS. One solution was to train your voice on the recorder as a second user. Someone got that to work for them. Someone else reported direct usage. I am not sure if it was tweeked. However, the quality of the microphone and the acutal port matters. I was told that the USB port on my MAC closest to the user is the best one for MacSpeech. The others go through the internal sound card and it takes something out of it. Also, the mic I use, the VXI made for it (expensive) is designed with onboard power so it can use the analog sensitivity of this technology in a USB port. That headset is great and looks like the reviews said-flimsy and cheap. That makes it light and preferrable to the old Plantronics I used which was superquality but hot and heavy. Your model is better. It has to approximate your voice, not digitize it, I think. Techies can argue that and I will accept. Thanks again for the useful, complete, and fair review of this helpful technology for me. And thanks for mentioning WordPress use. It is important. Bob This is the most balanced article on MacSpeech I have read to date. I found this on a search. I have MS and work on WordPress. The first time I used it in WP, hoping it would work, I had technical problems. I found later that it was “an historical accident.” The problem was not MacSpeech. WP requires plain text only. This seems to give it well.

I do not type well. I have had both the Mac and the NatSpeaking since 1998. This is the time to get them. Back then, you had to be really bad at typing or incapable. I was a champ at that! Now it is faster than most people can type.

I is also coincidendtal that my writing has increased after beginning blogging. I am today for the first time, speaking old diary entries into WordPress. Thanks for confirming this. I needed a little word.

I did read two other solutions online for taking audio and transcribing on MS. One solution was to train your voice on the recorder as a second user. Someone got that to work for them. Someone else reported direct usage. I am not sure if it was tweeked. However, the quality of the microphone and the acutal port matters.

I was told that the USB port on my MAC closest to the user is the best one for MacSpeech. The others go through the internal sound card and it takes something out of it. Also, the mic I use, the VXI made for it (expensive) is designed with onboard power so it can use the analog sensitivity of this technology in a USB port.

That headset is great and looks like the reviews said-flimsy and cheap. That makes it light and preferrable to the old Plantronics I used which was superquality but hot and heavy. Your model is better.

It has to approximate your voice, not digitize it, I think. Techies can argue that and I will accept.

Thanks again for the useful, complete, and fair review of this helpful technology for me. And thanks for mentioning WordPress use. It is important.

Bob

]]> By: Mark Sheadhttp://www.productivity501.com/macspeech-dictate/4821/comment-page-1/#comment-123799 Mark Shead Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:26:19 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/?p=4821#comment-123799 @Sarah - You might be able to train dictate by using small parts of someone else talking and then correcting it. If the person who will be talking is willing to go through the training process, you may be able to have them go through the 10 minutes of training to speed things up. @Sarah – You might be able to train dictate by using small parts of someone else talking and then correcting it. If the person who will be talking is willing to go through the training process, you may be able to have them go through the 10 minutes of training to speed things up.

]]> By: Sarah Bickleyhttp://www.productivity501.com/macspeech-dictate/4821/comment-page-1/#comment-123681 Sarah Bickley Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:29:33 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/?p=4821#comment-123681 Thank you for this useful article on Mac Dictate, which I got for Xmas 2008 and have STILL not opened. Maybe this will help me break it out. Do you know any program that will take tapes or CDs of other people talking (not yourself) and turn those into typed speech? That's a big need I have. Thanks. Thank you for this useful article on Mac Dictate, which I got for Xmas 2008 and have STILL not opened. Maybe this will help me break it out. Do you know any program that will take tapes or CDs of other people talking (not yourself) and turn those into typed speech? That’s a big need I have. Thanks.

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