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★★★★★
The Best Speech Recognition Software I Have Ever Used
I am a disabled web developer. I was born without hands, and my arms are about 8 inches long. I have tried many different speech recognition programs over the past 15 years. In fact I was one of the first students in Michigan to have a wheelchair mounted voice-recognition laptop. It was horrible and recognize nothing. Then a few years later I tried a few other pieces of speech recognition software, nothing was very good at all. I kind of gave up on speech recognition until last year I tried a program called iListen even that wasn't really up to par, but a month ago I received MacSpeech Dictate as a gift and after installing and setting up my voice profile I was in love with how accurate this software is. I am not sure software can get more accurate than this.
I have seen some negative reviews on Amazon and I'm not sure how anyone could give this software a bad review. Like I said I have tested and use a lot of software in the past and nothing has compared to this. I recommend this software to anyone with a disability, or anyone that is a slow typer.
I even typed this review with MacSpeech Dictate and it only took a few seconds. Because it allows me to speak in my natural voice and at my natural pace.
April 2008 · Software