Customer Reviews

iListen

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The program is fast and it works. It makes ViaVoice look sick.

iListen is the best voice dictation solution for the Mac OS. (It's even more accurate than anything I've used on Windows.) IBM is still playing catch up with their "Via Voice for Mac, Enhanced Edition". Now that Mac OS X 10.1 is out, I am eagerly anticipating an OS X version of iListen.

BTW, be sure to pick up a quality microphone for best results. The built-in mics on iMacs and iBooks/PowerBooks don't quite cut it.

This is truly a piece of amazing software! Even better, further improvements are expected in a very short period of time. No other software developer has ever been so responsive to the comments and needs of their users. I need an accurate and fast dictation system for my professional activities, and iListen has rapidly become the best solution. The recognition is as good as the competing product, and the ability to add your own vocabulary will put this product far out in front of the competition. IT'S GREAT!

I purchased iListen to try out a Digital Recorder, (I have the Olympus DS-330). I'm runnning iListen 1.5.2 on Mac OS X 10.2.1.

It works great for Direct Dictation, and once I figured out I had to create a different profile for the Olympus, accuracy jumped up there too.

Really cool product, buy it!!!

I am the disappointed one who equated iListen with my ex-wife.

MacSpeech helped me arrange a second marriage with their new produce, DICTATE.
In brief, I am wowed and amazed. It gets complex technical psychiatric terms and phrases. I find myself challenging it as though I am a host on a game show and it is going after a million bucks. Aside from a few forgivable limitations, such as spelling numbers, I am in love.

I have been a dictat-or for 30 years, and have gone through my share of humans and programs (ViaVoice is on my dusty shelf too). My office manager is sick and tired of hearing me complain.

No more! This DICTATE product is beyond my expectations, and i remove the hex from MacSpeech that I placed in my review of iListen. The equipment they compelled me to buy works great (the Platonics headset) and I am gong to try the Olympus D-2 next, even though there is no instruction for a digital recorder input, I am confident that hooking it up to the line-in will go well. I will let you know. But even if it doesn't work, I am glad to help this company feel the joy of profitable victory after their failure of their hyped but fatally flawed iDon'tListen first attempt. And that is from a doctor who dictates 25 pages a week, and has no vested interest in this company.

PS, YouTube has some examples of its performance by another awed early user.

I purchased iListen to try out a Digital Recorder, (I have the Olympus DS-330). I'm runnning iListen 1.5.2 on Mac OS X 10.2.1.

It works great for Direct Dictation, and once I figured out I had to create a different profile for the Olympus, accuracy jumped up there too.

Really cool product, buy it!!!

Product worked for a few minutes, then crashed repeatedly on new, loaded iBook.