iListen (Mac)

List Price: $99.99

Features:

• Top Selling Speech Solution For Mac OS X
• Dictate into any application
• Control your Mac with your Voice
• Easy to Use - just Talk!
• Supported Microphone Required

Customer Reviews:

Better than Dragon! [Posted on 2007-05-13]
If you're looking for software that will just type what you say the moment you install it, you are going to be disappointed with ALL voice recognition software. Training a computer to understand you takes time, it is like learning a foreign language. IListen is WAY better than the other VR programs out there, much better organized, seamless, I'd say. I got this program working much quicker than Dragon. There's a misconception that this sort of program is just going to work out of the box. It's not like that, it's more of a power-user program. Stick with it, it DOES work.

Ilisten by Macspeech [Posted on 2007-06-04]
I purchased Ilisten 1.7 for medical transcription for Mac. I was very disappointed in the reproduction after several hours of training. It was no better then 80% accurate under the best circumstances. I can not even recommend this product for even general use like letters, email, ect. It was horrible at transcribing medical terminology especially when importing via a dictaphone.

not what I wanted to hear [Posted on 2007-07-07]
I don't have the product (had to add a star value to enter this comment so I went in the middle) but these reviews were not what I wanted to hear. I recently switched over to Mac because I gave up on trying to keep my PC running, error, virus and spyware free - which seemed to be impossible. The mac has been great for over a year now but the one thing I miss from the pc was Dragon Dictation - I was happy with that program. Very accurate, wrote way faster than I could ever type and spelling was 99% accurate except for some words that sound the same but have different meanings.

I was hoping to get a similar program for the Mac but after reading reviews for this and ViaVoice, I don't know.

Useful online information helps a lot [Posted on 2007-07-11]
It works with Mac, which makes all the difference to me. I appreciate that it works with MS Office programs, since I do all my text work in WORD and am able to dictate directly into a WORD file, then pick up where I left off the next time. It does make a great difference if you are NOT using a tested and approved microphone, and there are some to specifically avoid. The MacSpeech company Knowledge Base is very helpful on this and other issues. Also, there is a useful, polite, honest Q/A online thread at the About This Particular Macintosh review of iListen with Chuck Rogers from MacSpeech.

iLove iListen [Posted on 2007-08-12]
I've been using iListen for almost 10 years now. They've been continually improving it & it is really a great speech recognition product. I'm disabled & learned to use it expecting I'd lose control of my hands. While I still have use of them, it is a huge energy saver. It is great whether you have a disability or just need dictation software.

I can tell you it is equally important to buy a good mic/headset or other mic setup for it...[...] This is true of any application where you input audio into the computer.

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