MacSpeech Dictate

this is an attempt to write a blog using nothing but voice recognition. The software in question is called MacSpeech Dictate which I’ve been using on and off for about the last two or three months. So far it’s extremely impressive; this post as you see it is exactly as MacSpeech Dictate has translated it without any manual corrections made by me.

So far the hardest part of using MacSpeech Dictate has been cognitive; I still find it very difficult to compose speak and read at the same time, for the process of dictation is very different in the process of type. That last sentence should read: “… very different than the process of typing.”

In a nutshell, while it’s taken me probably four or five times longer to compose this post by speaking rather than typing it is pretty cool not to touch the keyboard at all. And for someone who’s recovering from an RSI MacSpeech Dictate just might be the ticket.

(I’m very impressed that recognized RSI)