MacSpeech

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MacSpeech is a company that develops speech recognition software for Apple Macintosh computers. Its previous flagship product, iListen, was recently succeeded by Dictate, which is now built around Nuance's licensed Dragon NaturallySpeaking engine. MacSpeech was established in 1996 by current CEO Andrew Taylor.[1] MacSpeech is currently the only company that develops voice dictation systems for the Macintosh. Its full product line is devoted to speech recognition and dictation.

The first commercial voice dictation product for Mac OS X was IBM's ViaVoice , but ScanSoft, the company that had exclusive global distribution rights to ViaVoice, merged with Nuance and stopped developing ViaVoice for Macintosh. (The first dictation software for Mac OS 9 may have been Dragon Power Secretary.)[citation needed]

At the 2008 MacWorld Expo, MacSpeech's newly-revealed Dictate was a winner of the MacWorld 2008 Best of Show award.[2]

Dictate began shipping to existing iListen customers in mid-February, 2008[3][4]

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  1. ^ MacSpeech - Speech Recognition Solutions for Mac OS - The MacSpeech Story
  2. ^ Macworld | Editors' Notes | Macworld Expo Best of Show award winners
  3. ^ Pogue, David. "New Tools to Bolster Mac’s World", New York Times, 2008-01-24. Retrieved on 2008-03-18. 
  4. ^ MacSpeech Store - Articles - Press Releases - MacSpeech Dictate Ships To Founding iListen Customers Only

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