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55 of 56 found the following review helpful:
 Fast and accurate for certain kinds of transcription Dec 01, 2010
By mjs
This software does an excellent job of transcribing recorded speech. It's amazingly fast and accurate. In fact it's much better than Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC which I've used for over five years.
I'll use Scribe itself to finish the rest of this review. Transcription errors below are followed by the intended, or not transcribed words, in brackets. So here we go...
You need to fully understand what scribe is designed to do and the environment that's {that it's} designed to operate in before you decide if it's right for you. I'll tell you how I use it and maybe that'll help you decide. I have an iPhone and I have a MacBook Pro. I used {use} the voice memos {app} which comes with the it on {iPhone} to record long rambling speeches. When recording I speak into the iPhone the same way I speak normally. I am usually in my office or in a hotel room. Results are always better when there is no background noise.
Hold the microphone in front of your pot {pie} hole and don't slur or run your words together. In short, speak like an adult in an easy concise manner.
Exit voice memos.
Connect your iPhone to your Mac and use iTunes to sync your phone with your computer.
In ITunes, under the music tab, be sure "include voice memos" is checked.
ITunes will copy the voice memo you recorded {to} your hard drive. It will save the voice memo to \music\iTunes\iTunes media\voice memos\ as an M. for a {m4a} audio file, which is a supported file format described {in Scribe}. One {Open} scribe and select transfer it {transcribe}. Navigate to the voice memos folder and select your file. Transcribe it, make corrections as needed and save it or copy and paste it into a document.
The above transcription reflects the software's accuracy right out of of the box. I just installed it this morning. The software gets more accurate as it learns your speech patterns and incorporates your vocabulary into it's database. It's designed to transcribe a single voice speaking clearly, not a room full of people all talking at once.
I'm running Scribe on a MacBook Pro, 2.66 GHz Core i7 processor with 4 GB of RAM, Snow Leopard 10.6.5. and I highly recommend it to people who use it the way it was intended to be used.
21 of 22 found the following review helpful:
 not for serious work Mar 06, 2011
By Craig Chalquist, PhD, author of TERRAPSYCHOLOGY and DEEP CALIFORNIA
I just spent an entire weekend training this software--I bought it to save myself the labor of typing pages and pages from books--and in the end, it took me longer to slowly speak in each piece of writing, and then go over it line by line checking for errors, than it would have just to type it in to begin with.
Additionally, the transcription crashed after I had spent two hours on it, and it comes with no automatic backup, so that work is now lost. I wish I had read the reviews here before buying this buggy stuff.
17 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Crash, crash, crash, crash Oct 30, 2010
By Eric Van Meter
This is the second time I've tried MacSpeech software. The first product I tried was MacSpeech Dictate. I returned it when it crashed twice during the transcription training process (in which the software learns your voice and speech patterns).
I decided to give Scribe a try. It's now crashed four times in the space of an hour, all during the training process. It works fine the first time through training, but when I click to continue training, sudden crash.
I'm on a 2010 MacBook, Snow Leopard, with the latest update of Scribe -- fully compatible. No other application I run crashes (and I run a lot).
A search of "MacSpeech crash" turns up way too many results, for both Scribe and Dictate. I wish I'd done that search before buying.
20 of 23 found the following review helpful:
Be weary of poor reviews by inexperienced dictation software users Mar 25, 2011
By Joe Colorado
"GeoCache"
This is quicker than Dragon and it works well. In fact this entire review was dictated through mac speech scribe. If you are an experienced voice to text user you will find this to be a remarkable product. If you have not used dictation software before, and expect immediate results, without training, without having to speak punctuation, or having to speak slowly and somewhat like a robot, you will be extremely disappointed. I note that the poor reviews are inexperienced dictation software users who expected immediate results. If you are experienced using dictation software you probably won't be disappointed. And for anybody to expect this to transcribe more than one voice at a time, such as an interview setting, you better try software developed by NASA rather than $150 off the shelf software.
9 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Buggy and generally useless Feb 17, 2011
By Chris Regan
"Chris"
Been using this for a few hours now. It's crashed three times. Not at ALL Mac Friendly. Also, the transcriptions suck. Trying to transcribe AIFF files of recordings that were made into a mic. Doesn't understand anything. I wish I had read more of the bad reviews before purchasing.
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