Welcome to the Mac, Nachi!
Your timing is good, because until about now there was no dictation
software
on the Mac that was nearly good enough (unless you ran Dragon's Naturally
Speaking in Windows).
However, by all re****ts MacSpeech Dictate has changed that; it's a new
version entirely, built on Naturally Speaking's engine.
This is an extract from the Ars Technica site
(http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080117-serious-speech-dictation-make
s-its-mac-debut-at-macworld-08.html):
"If you're a Mac user and want to use speech dictation software, you
either
have to use a PC (or a virtual machine) in order to use Dragon, or just
plain do without.
Until now. Well, sort of. A company called MacSpeech has offered a product
called iListen for the Mac since 2000, originally debuting for Mac OS 9
and
later making the transition to Mac OS X. But iListen had numerous
limitations, and no one serious about dictation even considered it an
alternative to the superior Windows competition. At Macworld 2008,
MacSpeech
unveiled a new product that the company promises to change dictation on
the
Mac forever..."
I see it also got the Macworld "Best of Show" award for 2008 --
http://www.macworld.com/article/131642/2008/01/bos.html
A friend of mine is buying it; I'll wait until I own an Intel-powered Mac,
which it needs.
Cheers,
Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the Americas and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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On 12/6/08 2:04 PM, in article ee9bca4.6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"nachi"
<nachi123@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> hi, First time mac user. I got office for mac, and I am wondering if you
can
> dictate so word can write.
> thanks beforehand
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