Category: Speech to Text
Speech to text involves the computer understanding words spoken by the user. This includes dictation-related applications and command and control type speech-to-text.
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“Text to Speech” or “Speech to Text”?
It’s easy to confuse “speech to text” and “text to speech” – they’re very similar phrases – but the differences are important. Knowing which is which will help you search for what you really need.
MacSpeech Dictate is highly recommended
Speech dictation has been around for the Macintosh for years. There has been IBM’s ViaVoice and MacSpeech’s iListen. I never tried ViaVoice but I did purchase iListen when it initially came out back in 2000. In short, I hated it. The accuracy was so awful that it was such a chore to use it. I [...]
Voice Commander
VoiceCommander helps you expand Mac OS X built-in speech recognition technology to control any application.
MacSpeech Dictate
MacSpeech today announced that their iListen speech recognition product will be replaced by the new MacSpeech Dictate. MacSpeech Dictate will be based on the same recognition engine as Dragon Naturally Speaking. Dragon NS is widely acknowledged as the best continuous speech recognition program for Windows that’s available.
iListen
The software referred to here has been superseded by a newer product. Please read the article about the new MacSpeech Dictate software instead. SALEM, NH, November 30, 2007 – MacSpeech, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of iListen 1.8, an update to the Macintosh industry’s leading speech recognition solution, now compatible with Mac OS X [...]
Leopard: 17 Universal Access Features or more
Apple says there are 17 new features in Leopard for people with disabilities, but are there really many more?
Create speakable Safari bookmarks
A tip from Macworld on how to create speakable Safari bookmarks, which also has a lot of general information about the OS X built in speech recognition. Speech recognition is one of those features that has been present in the Mac OS for many years, and yet it’s not widely used – for any number [...]
Voice Candy
Voice Candy is a fun and useful recorder for your Mac. Think of it as Photo Booth for your microphone. As well as the fun uses of Voice Candy, there are a multitude of useful things it can do – record reminders with attached alarm timers, record notes to save to the Desktop, record and [...]
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