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Filed under: Macworld, MacBook Air

Macworld Best of Show awards

Macworld has announced the Best of Show awards for Macworld San Francisco 2008. Besides the obligatory MacBook Air, they've acknowledged a variety of interesting products from Photoshop Elements 6 to Guitar Hero III. For the full list, check out the announcement over at Macworld. In addition, they have a video of the presentations up as well.

Filed under: Software, Productivity

MacSpeech releases Dictate, wins Best of Show

For some time now speech recognition on the Mac has lagged behind Windows, particularly Dragon Naturally Speaking. Well, no more, as MacSpeech, developer of iListen for the Mac, has managed to license the Dragon engine from maker Nuance for the new MacSpeech Dictate announced at Macworld.

In addition to standard speech recognition and transcription into various applications like Word and Pages, Dictate also allows you to control your Mac by voice including support for Automator and AppleScript. According to our man on the show floor, it's impressive enough that it has won a Best of Show award.

MacSpeech Dictate will be available on February 15 for Intel Macs starting at $199, and registered users of iListen will be able to crossgrade for $99 unless purchased in 2008, in which case it will be $29 (iListen has been discontinued).

Update: A press release has been issued with more specifics on pricing. The crossgrade price for iListen users is actually $99; the $29 crossgrade is only available until April 15 to people who purchased iListen in 2008.

Filed under: Macworld

Macworld "Best of Show" award ceremony open to all, submission deadline looms

Every Macworld Expo brings us the Macworld Best of Show Awards, which is exactly what you'd expect it to be - the anointing of the Expo's best, most innovative new products, as chosen by the editors of Macworld magazine. Previously the award "ceremony" was closed to the public, but this year Macworld is shaking things up a bit by opening it up to all registered Macworld attendees.

If your company has something worth considering, time is running out to get your submissions in. The deadline for guaranteed consideration is December 15th, 2006, so get cracking!

By opening the awards to all, companies will get even greater exposure and attendees and contestants both will get to hear, first hand, why certain products were chosen.

The Best of Show ceremony will be held on January 10, 2007, at 2:45 p.m. at the Moscone Center. We'll be there. Will you?

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