MacSpeech Dictate Instructional Videos

By Ricky Buchanan • November 24, 2008

This entry is part 6 of 8 in the series Speech-to-Text Compilation

The MacSpeech Dictate people have been busy updating their website recently. As well as significant updates to the knowledge base, and new forums for users, they are now also offering free instructional videos.

MacSpeech Dictate instructional videos are designed to provide you with easy-to-understand, practical tips and techniques for getting the most from using MacSpeech Dictate.

The videos currently offered, and their lengths in minutes and seconds, are:

How to Install MacSpeech Dictate (2:17)
How to Create a Profile (2:19)
How to Use Phrase Training (1:52)
How to Create a Voice Command for a Text Macro (1:22)
Editing a Document (1:04)

Each of the videos is available in a high resolution and low resolution version. I especially recommend that all Dictate users watch the tutorials on Phrase Training and Editing a Document, as these are vital to the basic use of MacSpeech Dictate.

Website: MacSpeech Dictate Instructional Videos

- Ricky Buchanan

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Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan is 33 years old and the founder and main writer for ATMac. She's bedridden with severe CFS/ME or perhaps a primary mitochondrial disorder - the doctors are not sure. When she's not working on ATMac or her other websitse she composes music, listens to audio books, does other disability advocacy, watches TV with her flatmate, and enjoys her cat.

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