#SPEECH TO TEXT MAC FOR MAC OS X#
#SPEECH TO TEXT MAC FOR MAC OS#
#SPEECH TO TEXT MAC FOR MAC#

MacSpeech Dictate International, with support for speech recognition in English, French, German and Italian, was released in September 2009. MacSpeech Dictate Legal, with specialized vocabulary for lawyers, was released in July 2009. MacSpeech Dictate Medical, a version with specialized vocabularies for doctors and dentists, was released in June 2009. MacSpeech released a separate product, MacSpeech Scribe, to handle this. Another notable difference was the lack of a transcription feature for recorded voice dictation, as found in NaturallySpeaking. One major difference with MacSpeech Dictate was that it did not allow training by typing misrecognized words as Dragon NaturallySpeaking products do on Windows. This is the same technology that powers speech recognition in Dragon NaturallySpeaking for the PC, although across platforms there are significant differences in features, functionality and integration.

It used the Dragon speech recognition engine (v9 or v10), licensed from Nuance Communications. MacSpeech Dictate ran as a Mac-native application. In 2009, the firm released several editions of its products for the MacIntosh, including MacSpeech Dictate Medical, MacSpeech Dictate Legal and MacSpeech Dictate International. MacSpeech Dictate was a winner of the MacWorld 2008 Best of Show award. The firm abandoned the Philips speech engine in favor of the speech-recognition engine Nuance used in its Dragon NaturallySpeaking product for PC. In January 2008, iListen was discontinued, and replaced by 'MacSpeech Dictate' (released February 15, 2008).

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Its competitors at the time were Apple's own speech recognition software (built into Mac OS X) Dragon Naturally Speaking for PC by Nuance, running under a Windows virtualization software solution such as Parallels Desktop for Mac or VMware Fusion and the discontinued program ViaVoice by Nuance/ IBM. First released in 2000, by 2006 iListen was the only third-party software product that allowed voice-to-text input on the newer MacIntosh models requiring OSX. MacSpeech's first product, iListen, was developed in partnership with Philips Speech Processing using its 'FreeSpeech 2000' speech engine.

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(The first dictation software for Mac OS 9 was Articulate System's PowerSecretary.) Seeing a continued need for a Mac-based speech-to-text solution, MacSpeech was founded in 1996 by Andrew Taylor, a former employee of Articulate Systems experienced with software-based speech recognition technologies.

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The first commercial voice dictation product for Mac OS X was IBM's ViaVoice, but ScanSoft, the company that had exclusive global distribution rights to ViaVoice, merged with Nuance and stopped developing ViaVoice for Macintosh. On February 12, 2010, Nuance Communications, Inc. The company's products included iListen, MacSpeech Dictate, MacSpeech Dictate Medical, MacSpeech Dictate Legal, MacSpeech Dictate International, and MacSpeech Scribe. was a New Hampshire-based technology company that produced software-based speech recognition and voice dictation solutions for the Apple ecosystem.

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