Constance;
You can get it for $99.00 from MacSpeach directly.
The product seems fishy to me though.
They claim that you can not get a demo because it only works with
certified microphones and they would have to sterilize returned
mikes. Yet they clearly will sell you a no mike version, and will
even sell you a download version. They *COULD* provide a demo, they
just don't want to and then are not truthful about it.
To add to this I found this note on their site:
"Attention FileVault Users
There is a bug in Apple's Xcode compiler that makes it FileVault
incompatible with version 1.7. But whether you use iListen or not, we
strongly suggest you do not use FileVault for your sensitive or
confidential data due to known issues. For more information and a
possible workaround, please see this article in our online
KnowledgeBase."
Don't use FileVault for sensitive or confidential data? That is what
it is for! Has anyone else heard about this bug that seems to
particularly effect iListen version 1.7?
Matthew
On Oct 17, 2007, at 3:13 PM, Constance Warner wrote:
Has anybody out there tried iListen, or have any of your friends used
it? What did you/they think?
iListen is voice-recognition software for the Mac. You talk, it
types,
with 90-some percent accuracy. It's supposed to be a great advance in
voice-recognition technology for the Mac.
Why am I interested? Voice-recognition software is cool; it can
shave
hours or days off the time required to finish a project. I use Dragon
Naturally Speaking on my dual-boot Mac right now, and it's
FABULOUS. But
you can't really move a text file (Microsoft Word) back onto the PC
side
of the computer (and back into Dragon) to continue working on it, once
it's been on the Mac side. (The typeface turns into an unreadable mess
if you do.)
So iListen might be convenient, in a belt-and-suspenders kind of way;
but it's not free ($120 is the lowest readily available price), and
you
can't get a demo version. Does anybody out there know if iListen is
worth the price?
--Constance Warner
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