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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 ...

Dragon Dictate for Mac now available

by Mel Martin (Sep 20th, 2010)

That didn't take long. Earlier this year, Nuance Communications took over the MacSpeech product, with the intention of improving what was already a good application. That has now been accomplished, and today Dragon Dictate is available for the Macintosh platform -- a reasonably priced upgrade for ...

Nuance acquires MacSpeech

by Mel Martin (Feb 16th, 2010)

Nuance Communications, the company behind Dragon Dictate and Dragon Search for the iPhone, has acquired MacSpeech, the company that makes MacSpeech Dictate and other voice recognition apps for the Mac platform. The first product from MacSpeech was iListen, which was available until 2008. At that ...

MacSpeech update something worth talking about

by Mel Martin (Feb 24th, 2009)

MacSpeech Inc. unveiled a new update to its well regarded speech recognition application for the Mac today. The release of version 1.3, available immediately by download, has some significant enhancements and fixes. To test this new release, I've dictated this review into our browser-based content ...

TUAW Holiday Giveaway-tacular Part Five: the power blogger

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Dec 28th, 2008)

If you're looking to start a podcast or blog (or both) in 2009, this will get you started. The Snowflake mic is an awesome and portable audio tool, and MacSpeech Dictate is the "gold standard" of Mac transcription apps. Win both in this giveaway courtesy our friends at Dr. Bott. Don't forget the ...

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 ...

MacSpeech releases Dictate, wins Best of Show

by Mat Lu (Jan 16th, 2008)

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 ...

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