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iListen

January 8, 2007 | posted by Ryan |

In the presentation below regarding practical technology in research I venture into the arena of speech recognition software. The two programs I covered were Dragon Dictate and ViaVoice. I wanted to give an update as I just received an email from Scott regarding the ViaVoice program. Apparently it hasn’t been updated for some time and he does not personally recommend using this program. Instead, you may wish to check out a program by MacSpeech called iListen. This is built specifically for the Macintosh OSX platform, and can be used with some digital audio recorders as well as iPods. To view this program, please visit the MacSpeech site, or you can purchase it also through Amazon here.

I would love to hear your feedback as well regarding iListen. If you have used it, did you like it? How well did it work for your needs, and would you also recommend it for speech recognition, command recognition, and transcription? You comments will help others when they are attempting to parcel out the pros and cons of various programs. Thanks, and Cheers.

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  1. Ed Hirsch on January 8, 2007 10:32 pm

    Hi Ryan,

    I was just re-reading your letter to me about my book, “Being YourSelf: The Practice of Presence.” I am currently in a creative process with a new version, being completely rewritten.

    If you would like to correspond about it in any way, from any angle, I’d be game.

    Congratulations on getting your doctorate!

    Sincerely,

    Ed Hirsch

    P.S. I live for now in San Leandro.

  2. Scott on January 10, 2007 1:28 pm

    Just to clarify - I haven’t used ViaVoice on the Windows platform, so I can’t comment on whether it’s any good for Windows users. On the Mac platform, ViaVoice has not had any updates in quite a while, and wasn’t great to start with (in my admitedly limited experience with it). iListen, on the other hand, has been undergoing continual development since it’s initial release, delivering performance and functionality improvements with each update. So, if you’re a Mac user, and need speech-to-text functionality, do give iListen a try.

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