Even newest paid upgrade MacSpeech Dictate 1.5.2 Crashes on Snow Leopard

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Even newest paid upgrade MacSpeech Dictate 1.5.2 Crashes on Snow Leopard

I was disappointed that MacSpeech Dictate 1.3 would not work with Snow Leopard. I was extra annoyed and disillusioned to see that MacSpeech Dictate 1.5.2 PAID upgrade also fails at launching the app.

No ETA from MacSpeech on this.

Imran

MBP/17/2.6/200,iMac24/3.06,PBG4/17,PBG3/500,PBG3/300,PMG4,eMacG4, Mac OS X (10.6), iPhone 3GS, SonyEricsson P990,Phaser 860DP,HP 2605,iPod80 Nikon D300, 5700 & S6,

Posted on Sep 1, 2009 2:22 PM

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Answer 1

IMRAN Author

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Sep 3, 2009 1:57 PM in response to IMRAN

Working with a developer outside of MacSpeech official channels, he discovered the problem is if you have many contacts in Address Book, it will cause Dictate to crash. He had me change a small entry in the Terminal:

defaults write com.macspeech.Dictate MSPrefGenerateEmailCommands NO

and Dictate is working fine now. A separate bug, that causes Safari to crash any time a text entry is made if Dictate is just running and not even in use, still remains open. Hope this helps others.

Imran

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Answer 2

Sep 6, 2009 6:09 AM in response to IMRAN

Sounds like the same roblem I've been having, but I've no idea how to do this with Terminal. Can you advise? Thanks..

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Saltopus

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Sep 7, 2009 10:35 PM in response to Psychobert

A preferred solution is:

under Command Preferences, uncheck the box "Generate Email Commands". This does the same thing.

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Answer 4

Nov 16, 2009 2:34 PM in response to Saltopus

Any update on this? I've sent 3 mails to macspeech and not event had an acknowledgement..

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Answer 5

Nov 28, 2009 4:37 AM in response to Psychobert

Took a while.. Turns out I'd made a typo in my original registration and got my email address wrong. Ooops.. Sounds like they are quite busy over at Macspeech, but in my experience, they will get back to you in time..

Slightly peeved that some software I bought less than a year ago now requires 1/3 as much extra to get it to work with the upgraded software, but if it turns out to be 1/3 extra as good, then fair enough.

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tom 1223

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Jan 31, 2010 11:49 AM in response to IMRAN

My system will not run my current version of MacSpeech.Where can I get a fix? Is there one ?

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