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iListen also offers full command and control of your Mac. Open applications, click the mouse, and even surf the Web using nothing more than your voice. Use the exclusive Voice Launcher to open your favorite applications, along with more than 150 of the most popular sites on the World Wide Web. Work smarter, not harder with voice-activated AppleScripts. iListen uses AppleScript to perform a virtually unlimited range of tasks, all by voice. You can also easily create scripts of your own using iListen's convenient built-in script editor.
iListen is faster and more accurate than other speech recognition programs thanks in part to a native vocabulary of about 30,000 words and a background vocabulary of 300,000 words, developed in partnership with Oxford University Press. iListen will learn your voice in as little as 15 minutes. iListen keeps you informed with a feedback palette that floats above other applications.
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2001-10-04BTW, 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.
Finally, decent continuous dictation for the Mac 2001-10-04
The program is fast and it works. It makes ViaVoice look sick.
Repent! 2008-03-21
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.
iListen does it good 2002-11-13
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!!!
iListen does it good 2002-11-13
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!!!
desparately needed, but not there yet 
2002-03-13
Product worked for a few minutes, then crashed repeatedly on new, loaded iBook.
This will be the best dictation program available! 
2001-10-04
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!
