Speech to text yet?

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Speech to text yet?

I simply want to enter ISBN numbers from books into a word processing window by speaking them. Is there anything available yet for Macintosh that allows me to do this simple task?

ibook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on May 13, 2009 11:46 AM

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Answer 1

May 13, 2009 2:57 PM in response to C. R.

MacSpeech Dictate
<http://www.macspeech.com/product info.php?productsid=592>
but it needs the Intel Mac.

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Answer 2

C. R. Author

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May 13, 2009 4:02 PM in response to Malcolm Rayfield

Thanks. I was hoping for something less expensive. It just seems silly that with all the wonderful advancement in technology and science, someone has still not developed an application for this. I look at all the free, cool apps available for the iphone, and yet, no one can invent a simple piece of software that can do this.

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Answer 3

Jul 19, 2009 10:16 AM in response to C. R.

Might want to try delicious at delicious-monster.com

Instead of saying the number you can use a camera to scan the barcode. I don't know if that's possible with your mac, but it's worth a mention.

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Answer 4

Jul 19, 2009 10:26 AM in response to C. R.

There is nothing simple about understanding human speech, and anyone who's any good at it probably has at least a couple PhDs to pay for, so you can forget about any dreams you might be having about $5 shareware dictation apps flooding the market.

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