{"id":8570,"date":"2014-03-18T15:34:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T19:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8570"},"modified":"2014-04-15T21:55:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T01:55:41","slug":"os-x-dictation-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/18\/os-x-dictation-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"OS X Dictation Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicholas Riley<\/a>:<\/p>

OS X Mavericks (10.9) introduces “Enhanced Dictation”, a locally hosted, non-trainable version of Nuance’s recognizer.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Enhanced Dictation’s omissions of training and editing likely protect sales of the Dragon Mac products (discussed below).<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Nuance’s Windows dictation products (Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Medical\/Legal) are better than their Mac equivalents, though that’s not saying a lot. The UI is a scattered, slowly-evolving mess; true interaction between keyboard\/mouse and voice editing is limited to individual versions of specific applications, and the medical product is expensive (upgrades are $500 on sale<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The main reason I dictate into Windows is the ecosystem surrounding the Dragon products there. There are quite a few abandoned research projects and other near-abandonware to contend with, but it’s possible with some effort to construct a productive system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nicholas Riley<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

I do my serious dictation in a Windows 7 virtual machine. Having recently upgraded my dictation setup and transferred it to a new Mac, I figured it’d be a good thing to share.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Most of the time I’m not actually editing documents directly on Windows; the OS simply holds my text on the way to its destination in a Mac application.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update (2014-04-15): Nicholas Riley<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Thanks to PowerScribe, I realized that it’s actually easier for me to work with shorter fragments of text, a sentence or a paragraph at a time, rather than importing the entire document at a time. What I’ve implemented so far is on GitHub<\/a>; here’s a video showing it in use and explaining some technical details.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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