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The next big plus is that the recognition software is greatly improved over MacSpeech. Nuance’s effort here has really paid off. Not only does the system work much faster than in the past, but from our own point of view we didn’t need to put on a slight American accent to get the system to work at its best. Of course, we still had to annunciate properly and speak slightly slower than in real life but that’s just good practice for any speech-recognition software. Getting the software to edit mistakes can be frustrating at times but it’s getting better. The added bonus of being able to complete a few extra tasks like searching Google using voice alone is very cool and helps balance out any of the negative aspects of the software.
We’re still not in that place where controlling a Mac using speech alone is as simple as we’d like but if you are keen on doing big chunks of writing with your voice then this is a very worthy piece of software. We would encourage you to be patient with the software as it will eventually pay huge dividends. A nice improvement upon what was already pretty good software. The new features and stability make it a must for would-be dictators.
