Voice-to-text in OSX?

[pbw]

Is it available? From where? What is happening along these lines with Leopard? Or is that a secret?

 

[pdpfilms]

Is it available? From where? What is happening along these lines with Leopard? Or is that a secret?

I feel like i remember it being mentioned as a feature of leopard some time ago...

...maybe i was just dreaming.

 

[Cleverboy]

Voice-to-text in OSX?
Is it available? From where? What is happening along these lines with Leopard? Or is that a secret?

Voice-to-text is generally referred to as "dictation". For Mac OS, you basically have two main options:

• Starts at $29 - ViaVoice by IBM
• Starts at $99 - iListen

I feel like i remember it being mentioned as a feature of leopard some time ago...
...maybe i was just dreaming.

I'm going to go ahead and say, you were. What you probably saw is a Windows Vista demo, and your mind "collapsed" the concept of a feature you liked with the OS you preferred.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy9dRkCzRRQ

MacOS has "Voice Over" in Tiger, but it doesn't quite do as much.

All's not completely well in Windows-ville though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y_Jp6PxsSQ

Just in case you want an injection of "smug".

~ CB