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Good but not great and certainly not perfect - Version: 1.5.6, 11/6/2009 09:05AM PST
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lawrencecpaulson_dotmac
I use it every day and find indispensable. It copes with my difficult technical vocabulary. A Brazilian colleague finds it copes perfectly well with his accent. But I have sympathy with the negative comments, too. It is pretty flaky and it crashes a lot. They need to put a lot more effort into cleaning up the bugs.
Upgrade Gouging - Version: 1.5.6, 11/4/2009 09:51AM PST
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derekboles1
In July I purchased the 1.5 upgrade, which was absurdly overpriced at $54.95 for an incremental upgrade and bug fix. On top of it, I had to pay a $31.77 delivery charge to Canada. People mail me disks all the time from the U.S. for a couple of dollars. A month later I receive a bill for brokerage fee from FedEx for another $18.
So I paid $50 for them to mail me a disk on top of the incremental upgrade, for a total of $105.
I can hardly wait to see what they'll charge for version 2.
Derek Boles
So I paid $50 for them to mail me a disk on top of the incremental upgrade, for a total of $105.
I can hardly wait to see what they'll charge for version 2.
Derek Boles
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Frustrated beyond belief - Version: 1.5.5, 10/14/2009 07:45AM PST
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Brass Hammer
I am very frustrated with this application. When it first came out, it was a very good program. With a good microphone the recognition was excellent. I used it all the time in my business. However, over the last year a significant bug has been introduced and the company that makes this product seems unable to correct it. The problem is that when you use this application with Snow Leopard and other programs such as "Text Expander," MacSpeech Dictate reverses the letters of certain words.
Now here is the frustrating part. The MacSpeech Dictate developer is well aware of this problem. They have been aware of this problem for a long time. However, they do absolutely nothing to correct it. Worse, version 1.5.5 was supposed to fix this problem and it does not. However, they advertise it as though it is now fixed under Snow Leopard. I feel that the application is, potentially, a good one. However, as I have seen with many programs in the past, the developers are dropping the ball. They seem to believe that good is good enough.
Finally, MacSpeech Dictate's pricing is unreasonable. They charge for "updates" that are really only bug fixes. Further, as I state above, these bug fixes don't really fix all the bugs. This could be a great program. However, the company MacSpeech Dictate is ruining it.
Now here is the frustrating part. The MacSpeech Dictate developer is well aware of this problem. They have been aware of this problem for a long time. However, they do absolutely nothing to correct it. Worse, version 1.5.5 was supposed to fix this problem and it does not. However, they advertise it as though it is now fixed under Snow Leopard. I feel that the application is, potentially, a good one. However, as I have seen with many programs in the past, the developers are dropping the ball. They seem to believe that good is good enough.
Finally, MacSpeech Dictate's pricing is unreasonable. They charge for "updates" that are really only bug fixes. Further, as I state above, these bug fixes don't really fix all the bugs. This could be a great program. However, the company MacSpeech Dictate is ruining it.
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