By nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson), Ars Technica » Infinite Loop – December 07, 2010 at 12:30AM
The original MacSpeech Dictate was a decent product with some real flaws. Its best feature, the stunning voice recognition engine, was licensed from Nuance, so we’ve been waiting eagerly to see just what Nuance could do with the product after it purchased MacSpeech last year. Now we know.
The newly christened “Dragon Dictate” appeared last month, and we’ve been putting it through its paces ever since. The new release does bring Dictate more in line with its excellent PC counterpart, but the changes are more evolutionary than revolutionary. If you want better control over your machine, nice vocabulary editing tools, and an improved recognition engine, you’ve got it in Dragon Dictate. If you want to be free from the shackles of Dictate’s “golden rule”—about which more later—you’re out of luck.
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