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http://www.macnn.com/articles/00/11/27/ilisten.1.0/

iListen 1.0 speech recognition app debuts

updated 12:25 pm EST, Mon November 27, 2000

 
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MacSpeech today released iListen 1.0, its long-anticipated $130 speech recognition software. The software utilizes Philips Speech Processing's FreeSpeech 2000 engine, and features TalkAnywhere technology, allowing users to dictate anywhere typing would normally be used while the application remains in the background. The software requires a G3 or G4 with 128 MB of RAM and is available now for download (a $30 rebate is available to owners of IBM's ViaVoice). The boxed version will begin shipping in the coming weeks. A $30 introductory discount is being offered on packages without a headset (which can also be purchased at a discount) through the end of the year.


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    Best yet

    Been using iListen for a while now. A few notes:

    Lots of RAM is better for this Application. (as with all dictation software). If you have just 128MB of RAM, buy more. It will run fine with 128, but could use more).

    If you have an older iMac, buy a new Microphone, don't use the one built into the iMac for dictation... with any software.

    Other than that, the software looks great, works well, and is a huge leap forward. Can't wait for the command and control improvements to hit the shelf !

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    Simply wonderful

    This software is incredible. I too have been using it for a few months, and they've done an awesome job with it.

    Don't tell anyone, but it's probably worth quite a bit more than $99.

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    Wow, it truly rocks!

    Wow, I’ve been using the product (alas, the betas) for some months now, it is a VERY nice piece of software, but you DO want to get a noise cancellation microphone (like the iParrot or such).

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    Headset required?

    I've been working with the beta releases, and found the results less than wonderful, but I expect that's because I've been using my Powerbook's built-in microphone. Is a headset that much better?

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    iListen

    Will it work with MacOS X? I'm switching to MacOS X as soon as it is released. Buying iListen now won't make sense if I have to wait another year for a MacOS X compatible version.

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    Regarding Mac OS X

    All:

    We will have a Mac OS X dictation product available shortly after Apple announces the Mac OS X GM.

    Best Regards,

    Chuck Rogers, Chief Evangelist
    MacSpeech, Inc.
    http://www.macspeech.com

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    Headset

    "Is a headset that much better?"

    Yes. A good headset has noise-cancellation circuitry that allows your voice to come through without extraneous room noise. That gives the speech recognition software a much cleaner signal to work with.

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    Better than Viavoice?

    Can anyone who has used both ilisten and viavoice give an idea of which has the better recognition engine? I used viavoice for a while but gave up because I didn't find recognition to be great and the lack of command and control was a definite turn-off.

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    re: better than Viavoice

    I've used Viavoice and the betas of iListen. The engines appear to be very similar, though I don't recall if they are exactly the same. The beauty of iListen is that it is "speak anywhere", so you don't have to talk into the speech pad and then copy and paste (I believe Viavoice has an expanded version which allows this now though). The other extremely nice feature (disabled in the beta so I don't know how well it works) is the command and control feature which allows for telling your computer what to do, and have it do it (within limits, of course, which is good or my machine would be in several small pieces by now :) ).

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    $10 Discount

    MacSpeech are NOT providing a "$30" introductory discount, but a $10 introductory discount. I think MacNN made a typo. The $30 discount is for ViaVoice users. Still sounds great to me. I want competition in this field of software and MacSpeech have done some great hard work. Boohoo Dragon, sorry you aren't here.

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