Once you have you set up the MacSpeech dictate software to your computer and attached its hardware accessories [microphone and the new and enhanced sound enhancing USB headphones]. You will then turn on the program to begin using it. The first prompt that the program will give you is a request for you to create your profile: why it is important for you to set up your profile is, in the process of setting up your profile you will also be refining your MacSpeech dictate software recognition features, that is your profile will give the program specifications that are more pointed towards you and less generic. Some of the information you will upload to your profile that the program will factor into the refining of your MacSpeech dictate recognition ability include you voice, accent, hardware components, and vocabulary. 

You will then do a sound check to ascertain that the microphone is functioning properly; you can also do a quick test run by dictating some text and then observing whether the program recognized the text and also whether it “typed” it in correctly. This process will take a very short time and when the systems check is completed your MacSpeech is ready to go. Immediately you start using your new MacSpeech dictate you will be impressed by the high quality of work the program can turn around in a very efficient and effective way.

The quality and standard of out put you MacSpeech dictate program gives you will be relatively based to the quality and standard of data you input into the program to process. Therefore it is critical that when dictating, you need to speak very clearly and in the recognized accent so that the program can recognize most if not all the words and punctuations it is to “type”.  Also, in order for you to insert certain punctuations, special text, characters and numbers you will have to use the correct command terms, for that reason it is imperative that you become familiar and gain knowledge of all the commands necessary for you to be able to use the program effectively. I.e. so as to be able to not only dictate & write the text but also to be produce grammatically correct documents.

Whilst MacSpeech Dictate is amazingly precise with familiar and commonly used words, terms and phrases. The software has a program upgrading element that lets you teach the program new vocabulary, the process of upgrading the program can be extremely exasperating and irritating.

It is also important to note that, one of the biggest advantages of this upgrade feature is that you can reprogram the program to recognize your accent, and dictation of words. If you feel the program is having a problem picking up your pronunciation of a certain word you can reset the program in regard to that word pronunciation so that the program can identify the word the way you pronounce it. On the flip side, the biggest challenge of this feature that gives you the ability to edit the program of is that the processes of editing or reprogramming your MacSpeech dictate can be very time consuming it is therefore advisable that you try to learn the accent that the program has been programmed with and to keep any editing to a bear minimum.

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