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Switching Sound Output with Dictate

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

I figured I would put the AppleScripts and information on how to build the macros for MacSpeech Dictate to switch between the different sound output options.

Dictation in process…

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Well, I’ve spent a couple days trying to get used to using MacSpeech Dictate and I have to say things are going swimmingly.

MacSpeech Dictate

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Something I’ve always wanted since I was a kid was the ability to talk to a computer and have it type saying. I’ve seen the speech recognition software since its early stages on the Windows environment. I also remember speakable phrases for the Macintosh environment. Based upon what I experienced, I just didn’t believe that it would be very accurate. Cost was also a prohibitive point when considering buying speech recognition software. I didn’t want to pay a large amount of money for something that didn’t work that well. So, I decided to sit this one out until I knew the technology had gotten better. It has.