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MacSpeech was a company that developed speech recognition software for Apple Macintosh computers. It has been acquired by Nuance Communications.
In 2008, its previous flagship product, iListen, was replaced by MacSpeech Dictate, built around Nuance's licensed Dragon NaturallySpeaking engine. Dragon Dictate for Mac, an upgrade for MacSpeech, was announced on September 20, 2010, by Nuance corporation, the maker of MacSpeech and NaturallySpeaking. The upgrade incorporates some of the benefits of NaturallySpeaking for Windows into the Mac Software. Other NaturallySpeaking features, such as training mis-recognized words by simply re-typing them using the keyboard, are not present in Dragon Dictate for Mac.
MacSpeech was established in 1996 by current CEO Andrew Taylor.[1] MacSpeech was the only company that developed voice dictation systems for the Macintosh. Its full product line was devoted to speech recognition and dictation. On September 20, 2010, Nuance corporation, the maker of MacSpeech, announced a new product, Dragon Dictate for Mac, based on Nuance's superior NaturallySpeaking for Windows product. Nuance is expected to promptly announce whether Dragon Dictate for Mac allows training by typing misrecognized words, as NaturallySpeaking now does, but MacSpeech does not.
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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 was Articulate System's PowerSecretary.) [2]
At the 2008 MacWorld Expo, MacSpeech's newly-revealed Dictate was a winner of the MacWorld 2008 Best of Show award.[3]
In addition to Taylor, those involved from the beginning until the Nuance acquisition included, among others, Chief-Evangelist Chuck Rogers, CFO (later, VP) Michael Schwing, VP of Engineering Jeff Ganyard, early hands-on investors including Micah Solomon[4], and VP of Marketing Donald MacCormick.
Dictate began shipping to existing iListen customers in mid-February, 2008[5][6]
On February 16, 2010, Nuance Communications announced that they fully acquired MacSpeech.[7]
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- ^ MacSpeech - Speech Recognition Solutions for Mac OS - The MacSpeech Story
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- ^ Macworld | Editors' Notes | Macworld Expo Best of Show award winners
- ^ http://www.indie-music.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2177/
- ^ Pogue, David (2008-01-24). "New Tools to Bolster Mac’s World". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/technology/personaltech/24pogue.html. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- ^ MacSpeech Store - Articles - Press Releases - MacSpeech Dictate Ships To Founding iListen Customers Only
- ^ http://www.nuance.com/macspeech/
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