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From: Mark Conrad on 30 May 2010 17:45

Imminent demise of MacSpeech?

I hate to be a pessimist, but it certainly looks
that way to me.

I tried my best to encourage the use of MacSpeech.

I even bought all their crappy software, just to
check it out, and evaluate it for others here.

I was accused by some here as being in the employ
of MacSpeech, kind of an enthusiastic customer who
encourages and entices others to use crappy
bug-ridden MacSpeech software.

That really hurt.

But some in this NG are known for their false
accusations and knee-jerk evaluations.



Meanwhile, speech recognition for Windows flourishes,
Nuance is making Great Gooey Gobs of money, in the
hundreds of millions of dollars, with their SR software.

Other outfits like MacPracticeMD are selling specialty
software app's to the medical industry, at $5,000 a crack,
which are tied in with SR software.
(SR = Speech Recognition)


I have reverted to using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10.1

Shelling out $900 for the Pro version, and $1,600
for the Medical version.

The $200 "Preferred" version is useless IMO, just way
too many essential features missing.



MacSpeech? Oh I still use it, as an entry level SR app'
for teaching newbies. Once the newbie is proficient with
MacSpeech 1.5.8 - then it is relatively easy for them
to grok Dragon, which is the only game in town, presently.


Nuance bought out MacSpeech this last February, apparently
they plan to let the tiny company wither on the vine,
because they are making no attempt to improve MacSpeech.

Nuance has a history of buying out the competition.

SR for the Mac? Wait another 20 years, we might get
another crack at it.

Mark-
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