Does anyone know of a good speech recognition program for Mountain Lion?

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Does anyone know of a good speech recognition program for Mountain Lion?

I purchased a speech recognition program in 2008, MacSpeech Dictate. I only used it for a short period of time, but problems with my hands have started up again. MacSpeech Dictate does not work on OS X 10.8. I wondered if there are any speech recognition programs available for this operating system? i found "Dragon Express" in the App store, but it was rated low, and apparently crashes with 10.8. I cannot beieve that Apple would forget about those with disabilities. I have activated the speech commands window and have experimented with it, but it seems limited for browsing the web. I wondered if there was a way to create my own commands using the Speech Command application in Mountian Lion? Any ideas anyone? Have I missed something with Speech Commands on 10.8?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jan 17, 2013 6:22 PM

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Answer 1

babowa

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Jan 17, 2013 6:40 PM in response to alitafmmd

Have you thoroughly explored the Dictation and Speech Pane in System Preferences? There is now Dictation as well as Text to Speech. I've not tried the latter, but the Dictation works in most Apps that provide a text field to enter text into.

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Jan 17, 2013 6:44 PM in response to alitafmmd

The built in dictation is pretty good. The only real downside is that the conversion is done server-side so you have to dictate, then wait a bit, and then dictate, and then wait a bit.

The gold standard is dragon dictate. I think it's a few hundred bucks but it's fantastic software. I belive the Nuance engine underneath it is used by the Mountain Lion dictation feature, though.

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