Dictation Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Mountain Lion's dictate software compared to Dragon Dictation

by Mike Schramm (Nov 26th, 2012)

Macworld has done an interesting comparison of two different dictation offerings available on your Mac: They've looked at the core dictation service available in the latest version of OS X, Mountain Lion, and compared it to Nuance's classic Dragon Dictation service, comparing the two in terms ...

Review: Dragon Dictate 3 for Mac delivers reliable dictation

by Mel Martin (Oct 1st, 2012)

I was anxious to test the updated Dragon Dictate, now at version 3, as I had been a steady user of the Dragon products over the years and watched them improve. The new version offers performance boosts for legacy users, along with some attractive new features that might entice customers. Dragon ...

Mountain Lion 101: Dictation

by Steven Sande (Jul 25th, 2012)

What can I say about my love of Mountain Lion's new Dictation feature? I've wanted to be able to talk and have my words transcribed to text ever since I saw the original "Assignment: Earth" episode of Star Trek back in 1968 (image at top of post). That's actress Teri Garr talking to a ...

Apple gets iPad dictation instructions wrong (Updated)

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 11th, 2012)

As a writer, I know how hard it can be to write without spelling, grammar or punctuation errors 100% of the time. That's why I find my editors (and sometimes even readers) extremely helpful when they point out a mistake. A few years ago I showed that Apple had posted wrong information about ...

Remote Dictation Smackdown: Which app does the best sending Siri text to a Mac? (Updated)

by Erica Sadun (Dec 3rd, 2011)

Update: At the end of the original post, Erica mused about a single-purpose iPhone 4S dictation app; turns out, of course, that there already is one. The $0.99 Remote Dictate, from the makers of Mobile Mouse Pro, works with the same Mac-side server and offers only dictation with no remote ...

Dragon adds Recorder app for time-shifted desktop dictation

by Michael Rose (Oct 19th, 2011)

It's all about speech on the iPhone 4S, from the systemwide dictation features to the inscrutable but very helpful Siri assistant. The fine folks at Nuance (suppliers of some of the underlying IP that powers the 4S voice savvy) have made a big move into the mobile space; the company already has a ...

Vlingo 2 adds more voice power to iPhone

by Michael Rose (Mar 4th, 2010)

In the burgeoning market for iPhone voice recognition apps, the free Dragon Dictate clearly holds the top spot. In fact, this paragraph was dictated using DragonDictate (with some minor edits after the fact). However, the application doesn't always shine when it comes to getting your text quickly ...

Dragon Dictation comes to the iPhone. Wow.

by Mel Martin (Dec 8th, 2009)

Put this into the 'I didn't think they could ever get this to work on an iPhone' category. I'm talking about Dragon Dictation [iTunes link] from Nuance, the developers of the very popular Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC. Nuance also provides the speech recognition engine for MacSpeech ...

TUAW Hands On: MacSpeech Dictate 1.2 ships

by Michael Rose (Oct 23rd, 2008)

I've written blog posts on planes, on trains, and definitely in automobiles. This is the first time, however, that I've written a section of a post just using my voice. MacSpeech Dictate, version 1.2 (the firstthird version using the Dragon technology licensed from Nuance), released this week, is so ...

Over 300 iListen ScriptPacks for Safari and Mail

by David Chartier (Dec 30th, 2005)

MacSpeech has released Safari 2.0 and Mail 2.0 ScriptPacks for their iListen app, offering more than 300 new commands for controlling just about every function and option with merely the power of your voice. The ScriptPacks are available now for $10 apiece, while the iListen app itself starts at ...