Comments on: What is wrong with MacSpeech?

By: Kare

Kare — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 23:57:31 +0000

I completely agree. I upgraded myself a while back and it is definately usable. I haven't launched windows since. But some features are missing, first of all something as simple as highlighting in bold the differences between the suggestions in the correction window. But this and other features from the windows version will hopefully be added later.

By: Tim Harper

Tim Harper — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:25:31 +0000

Ok, I heard that DragonDictate is an acceptable solution, so a few weeks ago I bought it. I’ll report that it still isn’t as good as the windows version, not close. However, it gets a few things right and it is acceptable. Not good for someone who is looking to dictate code to their computer or browse web, but for writing articles, emails, and IMs it really succeeds. The AppleScripting and command editing abilities are OK as well (not NatLink, unimacro, dragonfly etc, not even close, but what you can do with appleScript and command editor is enough to fix a few of the minor annoyances).

I wish dragon doctate folk would embrace open source community using macs and give us better developer tools for their product on the mac, we would all win. Its just a matter of time before google does.

By: Dragon Dictate 2.0 for the Mac @ NotTooBad Software

Dragon Dictate 2.0 for the Mac @ NotTooBad Software — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:55:52 +0000

[...] have been a bit harsh on MacSpeech in the past, but since then they have been bought by Nuance (makers of the excellent Dragon [...]

By: Kraig Fennimore

Kraig Fennimore — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:58:25 +0000

very good articles hopefully i learned from it.

By: Billie Morosow

Billie Morosow — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:48:59 +0000

Hey, i came across your blog on yahoo and i think it’s sweet!

By: How to dictate in Mac applications with Dragon NaturallySpeaking @ NotTooBad Blogging

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:12:52 +0000

[...] I have mentioned before I’m not a big fan of MacSpeech Dictate. So I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking in Windows XP [...]

By: Tim Harper

Tim Harper — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:29:03 +0000

I’ve posted the code, along with a downloadable compiled version, over here:

http://github.com/timcharper/tightvnc-dns

Please read the README.textile file (available towards the bottom) for known issues, and a few workarounds.

Let me know how it goes! I plan to create a more permanent solution, as time allows, but I’ve been able to get 80% of the results with 20% of the work, so I’ve opted for it.

If it gets working, and you’re motivated to try more, I have a script that automatically focuses TightVNC-DNS in the Parallels VM when your focus leaves Parallels Desktop (as it stands, you have to be sure to set it each time you leave, and this is impossible in coherence mode)

By: Kare

Kare — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:19:03 +0000

Hi, sorry you had trouble commenting, I tried it myself, couldn’t find any problems but disabled the captcha nonetheless.

Re: dictating directly into Mac applications using Dragon NaturallySpeaking; That sounds fantastic! I am very interested in seeing what you have put together. Where can I find it?

By: Tim Harper

Tim Harper — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:40:44 +0000

Oh, and I am happy to share what I’ve created.

By: Tim Harper

Tim Harper — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:39:49 +0000

I have lost 4 posts with your commenting system. Please fix it – open ID breaks because it says it can’t find the captcha cookie, the captcha is located underneath the submit button, so when either of those fail, the text is lost as when I use the back button the comment text box initializes to empty again (must be some javascript you are running).

I am not going to type it all again. Roughly: I’m in the same boat, I’ve written some extensions and some code making it possible to use Dragon NaturallySpeaking with my Macintosh applications, and I’m currently dictating into Mozilla Firefox on my mac using Dragon NaturallySpeaking under parallels desktop 5.0.