Microphone/Voice Rec. Software

[iRachel]

Hello -

I'm looking to purchase my first mac (likely a 12" pb) just as soon as they're updated. I have a question though - as a graduate student with some occasionally severe tendenitis 😡, I would like to be able to rely on voice recognition software and a microphone when necessary - any recommendations would be much appreciated. 🙂

Thanks,
iRachel

 

[James Philp]

The PB's have a microphone built in and..
Mac OS X has pretty good voice recognition built in too.
Try reading this fpr more specific information.
Hope that helps 🙂

 

[deebster]

If you want an app to do speech to text (ie dictaton) then you could look at iListen by MacSpeech.

It's not perfect and will take you a while to train it to your speech patterns, but it's just about the best (and only, given that IBM's ViaVoice is no longer supported) one available for Macs

 

[wdlove]

I own IBM Via Voice for Mac, agreed it is difficutl to use. I'm a patient person, bit for reasons that I won't go into it was more than I could tolerate.

Acording to the website it still supports Mac OS X.

http://www.scansoft.com/viavoice/osx/