speech technology for film editors on Macintosh Computers

Submitted by alice.freund on Mon, 06/19/2006 - 19:50.

Macintosh

I am new to this list. My daughter, Liz, has the beginning of carpel tunnel syndrome. I would like to find speech recognition software for her. She will be using a Mac computer because she is a film editor. She is going away to college next year.She particular has pain when she does clicking. She needs to click and drag to do film editing. Does anyone have any experience good or bad (but especially good) with Mac software that enables you to click and drag using speech?

Also, can anyone recommend a

Submitted by alice.freund on Mon, 06/19/2006 - 19:56.

Also, can anyone recommend a listserve or forum like this thats specifically for Mac users?

alice.freund wrote:Also, can

Submitted by admin on Tue, 06/20/2006 - 15:42.

alice.freund wrote:

Also, can anyone recommend a listserve or forum like this thats specifically for Mac users?

Try this link: http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/MacVoiceFAQ.html

To my knowledge (limited as

Submitted by admin on Tue, 06/20/2006 - 15:40.

To my knowledge (limited as it is with the Mac) there are three options available for the Mac.

1) MacSpeech's iListen is purported to be the best choice. Their website is http://macspeech.com

2) Another option is IBM's ViaVoice. You can learn more at http://www.nuance.com/viavoice/

3) This one is "out there". There was something I read about some Mac's could run the Windows operating system. I would think if it can do that, it MAY be able to run Dragon NatSpeak.

Hope this is of some help. Perhaps someone with more knowledge of the subject will help more!

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Hear MacSpeech Chief

Submitted by bgooch on Thu, 06/29/2006 - 20:57.

Hear MacSpeech Chief Evangelist Chuck Rogers discuss iListen 1.7 on Chuck Joiner's MacVoices Interview program

http://www.macvoices.com/archives/2006/macspeech.html

MacSpeech has announced the release of iListen 1.7, a new version of its speech recognition program for Mac OS X.

iListen lets Mac users dictate into Mac applications and control their Macs with spoken commands. MacSpeech also sells “ScriptPaks,” speech control for specific applications.

New to this release is Universal Binary support for Intel or PowerPC-based Macs. Improvements include faster training and better accuracy; improved voice commands and support for multiple user accounts. Several bug fixes and other minor enhancements and cosmetic improvements have also been made.

http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/06/19/ispeech/index.php