wired headset, a wireless Bluetooth headset or, in a pinch and with compromised accuracy, the built-in microphone of your laptop.īecause it uses the same underlying recognition technology as NaturallySpeaking 11, the accuracy is uncanny, at least if you speak fairly clearly and don’t have much of an accent. (It probably goes without saying that I dictated this entire column. After 25 years, full-blown, professionalĭictation software has finally come to the Mac.ĭictate ($200 with headset $50 upgrade) runs in the background and translates everything you say into typewritten text into any Mac program. really, everybody would’ve been a lot happier if a Mac dictation app had been available all along - but it’s almost everything it should be. It’s something that many Mac fans have been awaiting for more than a decade. The result, now called Dragon Dictate for the Mac, made its debut last week. Taylor’s team harness all of the company’s enormous dictation-software expertise, Its latest recognition technology, the one that drives NaturallySpeaking 11 for Windows, to the Mac - and to let Mr.
Apparently the resurgence of Apple and the Mac was dramatic enough for Nuance to get interested - and it bought Andrew Taylor’s little company. Columnist, David Pogue, keeps you on top of the industry in his free, weekly e-mail newsletter.
