This is my first use of iListen. Since I have a broken finger and am unable to tiny quickly I purchased iListen as an experiment. Before purchasing iListen I purchased a copy of IBM ViaVoice for Macintosh. When look down the package it said they’re only supported Mac OS 10.1 and MacOS 10.3. I just assumed that would also work on Mac OS 10.4. When I came home and did some research on the Internet I found that IBM ViaVoice indeed did not support Mac OS 10.4. So I got in the car and drove to the Apple store in Grand Rapids Michigan the purchase a copy of iListen because I have the 6000 page paper that it’s due by Tuesday.
So as a test I figured that I would enter a block entry using iListen. They say that the first thing to do it is to work on informal speech such as email and other things before you try to actually do serious writing about is what I’m doing. So far it seems as though it’s about 85 percent. It only gets about half of the sentences right. It does get least three quarters or more of the words right. But even with the mistakes it is far superior to typing with one hand. Because I can always use the mouse with one hand to go back incorrect incorrect words. I simply go back and highlight the incorrect word and then say again.
So far even though I have only trained at for about ten minutes it seems quite accurate the end it quite pleased with it. it important to watch as you speak because sometimes if you speak to watch him and try to go back and understand what you said when it has misunderstood your words you have no chance of figuring out what you actually said. it does work better if you speak deliberately the with a brief pause in between words.
It has this bad habit at least in TextEdit when you go back and highlight word and re-say it of putting that word in capital letters. Perhaps I’ll find a preference that solves this problem.
To compare this with the last time I used voice recognition it has improved significantly. The last time I used voice recognition was about three years ago and all I really remember is it made me so angry that I wish that the software understood curse words to mean delete the last word that I just said.