Philips Speechlive, long known for its Australian-hosted, cloud-based dictation, voice-to-text and transcription workflows now adds Speech to Text to the Mac with a dedicated Philips SpeechLive macOS Desktop App. Frustrated with Apple’s built-in Dictation in macOS? Still looking for an old copy of MacSpeech Dictate to install? Freaked out by the idea of installing a … read more
Microsoft via Office 365 has officially joined the speech recognition club by enabling the new “Transcribe” function in Word. Transcribe is essentially automatic transcription of voice or voices to text. Yes, voices! Transcribe can convert speech to text for more than one speaking voices to text and it can identify those speakers, we have an … read more
Olympus with their Windows Dictation and Transcription software have always had a close synergy with voice recognition technology, specifically Nuance’s Dragon for Windows. The Olympus ODMS (Olympus Dictation Management System) software that comes with both the professional digital dictaphones (DS-9000 and DS-9500) and in the pro transcription typing kit (AS-9000) both have integration with Dragon … read more
Transcription, a service whereby audio is listened to by a real person and physically typed, is now under pressure from new technology created by Amazon called AWS Transcribe an Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) service. #UPDATE# September 2020. Microsoft also disrupts by adding the Transcribe function to Word via office.com which converts single or multi (meetings/interviews) … read more
In what we thought was a surprise move Nuance announced this week that it will be canning its macOS voice recognition software Dragon for Mac. It was a surprise to us as the latest version Dragon for Mac v6 was finally at a good state with really good live voice recognition and just a good … read more
** This post was originally written in 2017. ** UPDATE September 2020: Microsoft release the Transcribe feature in Word online for Mac and PC, here is the post: dictat.es/word-transcribe Voice recognition or voice-to-text isn’t anything new, it has been around for years made by a company called Nuance in the form of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Recently … read more
Olympus have just released worldwide a new set of RecMic (hand held, USB connected) microphones for use with Dragon’s speech recognition software. Of the five models released worldwide only these three will be available in Australia: Olympus RM-4100S – Optical Slide Switch + Clickable Trackball + 4 Programmable Buttons Olympus RM-4100S – Optical Slide Switch … read more
We have been writing this blog for quite a few years now, our first post was back in early 2009. Since then we have covered advances in the voice recording world and touched on speech recognition software here and there. We were even resellers for Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Windows for a while and were helping … read more