Comments on: iListen

By: Erik Schmidt

Erik Schmidt — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:43:54 +0000

MacSpeech Dictate wowed everyone at MacWorld in January. It is powered by the Dragon speech recognition engine which until now wasn’t available for the Mac.

MacSpeech Dictate is the successor to iListen, and MacSpeech is offering crossgrades to iListen users: http://www.macspeech.com/crossgrade_assistant.php

By: Frank William Meadows

Frank William Meadows — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:48:05 +0000

Has anyone tried “MacSpeech Dictate”? What is the difference?

http://www.macspeech.com/pages.php?pID=53

Frank

By: Erika York

Erika York — Tue, 29 May 2007 00:35:24 +0000

Thank you. Recording lectures wasn’t particularly common in my undergrad days either. But I found it helped me relax and pay more attention to the lecture then worring about missing something. I’ll have to wait and see.

By: Erik Schmidt

Erik Schmidt — Fri, 25 May 2007 22:50:19 +0000

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone in class actually recording a class, save once last semester. Someone had to leave early so he left his recorder in class, and picked it up from the professor later. I wonder if this is one of those school-specific things. For example, I’ve noticed that at Santa Clara 80 or 90% of students have laptops out in class, but my impression is that in some schools laptops aren’t as common.

By: Erika York

Erika York — Fri, 25 May 2007 19:19:31 +0000

Out of curiosity, do you audio, or anyone else out there, audio record your classes? I have a ditigal audio recorder I use for when I’m in the car and brain storming. 9 times out of 10 I get my best ideas while I’m driving and I can’t write anything down. I’ve considering recording my classes so I don’t miss anything. Does anyone think this is worthwhile or am I just being anal?