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99% Accurate? More like 75%.
This program is an unmitigated disaster. After spending several hours with it and going through all of their tutorial sessions it still rarely gets a single sentence correct. I honestly cannot believe that they could even begin to sell this product in good conscience. I have a macbook running leopard and, unlike other reviewers, I have been able to create a profile and use many(but not all) of the features. But here are my problems: <
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>1) It transcribes, at most, 70% of the words correctly. <
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>2) There is no "spelling mode", though it is advertised as having one. Making it impossible to type most names. <
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>3) There is no manual or support for the product. So if you can't get a particular aspect to work: like the spelling mode for instance, you are simply stuck without that aspect of the program. There website is lacking in any information, they do not respond to emails, and the program itself comes only with a two page instructional book. <
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>4) Using the supplementary "Voice Training" modes does *not* improve the performance of the program. <
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>Here is a sample sentence type thing MacSpeech Dictate. <
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>Here is a sample sentence that I typed using MacSpeech Dictate. <
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> This program is routinely close, but that's simply not good enough. I would highly recommend reading for a later version. As I think once they get the bugs out, is to be very impressive for program. <
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>This program is routinely close, but that's simply not good enough. I would highly recommend waiting for a later version. As I think that once they get the bugs out, this will be a very impressive program.

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Horrible Problems/No support
This is a horrible product. After buying it at Macworld and waiting until March to finally get it I attempted to install. It quits before you can make a profile. Tried it on 2 other compuers at work and the same thing happens. Tried to get help but have waited 2 weeks for someone to call me back and no body has. Their support system on their website is now unavailable. What gives with these guys. It is completely useless to me and they want a 15% restocking fee to return the product. Beware.

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Can't cross-grade, can't even update iListen to 1.8
I've tried to use iListen (with the recommended headset) with almost no luck, and working far harder than if I just do the typing. Imagine my excitement when I saw that MacSpeech had adopted and adapted the Dragon speech-recognition system to the Macintosh. So I went to cross-grade and was told that they couldn't recognize my email address. My registered copy of iListen apparently must be upgraded to 1.8 from 1.7 before I can cross-grade. (I'm sorry, but I have to say that I hate that neologism.) But I can't update because, despite having a registered copy of iListen 1.7 I get an error message trying to download the upgrader in order to cross-grade, which strikes me as being patently retrograde. <
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>I review technology for people who need various sorts of assistive software and hardware (I do lectures to seniors and people with disabilities) and frankly I had great hopes for this one. But I would never advise a person who already needs some special help in using technology that they should try to use either the MacSpeech web site or its software until I see some dramatic changes. When that happens, I promise to update this "review." <
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>So, a warning. Wait until this thing is out on the market for a while. MacSpeech has posted an arbitrary cross-grade date of March 20-something, and they are likely to be so busy dealing with the anger that that engenders that they won't be of any use for months. (Surely 1.0 won't be flawless.) As for me, I happen to own an XP machine as well, and I will use Dragon Dictate or my fingers until I start to see really positive reviews. <
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>Update: The cross-grade process seems to have worked. I finally got through to get the 1.8 upgrade for iListen, so that I could then order the MacSpeech Dictate crossgrade via FedEx. It's on its way, purportedly. A review of the new software should follow in a few days.