Key: [incorrect word = correct word] {word wasn't spoken} ex: the first word was "Perhaps." iListen typed "Passing."

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[Passing = Perhaps] the best way to describe my experience with iListen it is to dictate {to} with iListen. I have done nearly all of the training exercises. I've followed {the} the instructions explicitly, including using text [Dr. Hans = ?] to help [you = it] learn my writing style. I've [got = gone] so far as to [move us = ?] [which = switch?] microphones. A call to MacSpeech [let = led] me to believe that one of the microphones they sold would be more effective. This example of dictation shows how effective that really [us = was].

It's really my fault [parental = parenthesis] and yours [and Peru = end parenthesis] {and} if [you = you're] using [the = this] software. But looking at Mac user, version tractor, and [go goal = Google], one can find {in} dozens of articles comparing speech recognition [software us = software's]. It is extremely revealing, I think, that David [poker = Pouge] of the New York Times, a tremendous Mac supporter, he uses dragon {is } naturally speaking for his dictation. Almost every review [plus out = ?] that dragon it is the far superior software, and I for one will have to [Yankee = yank] my ancient the Dell, Windows [expect = XP], computer out of storage and install dragon naturally speaking on it in order to get accurate results.

I wish [you = it] weren't true. I wish it was easy use this software. I wish [you = it] really worked. But as a businessman, I have more important things to do then try to figure out how [the = to] [makes software is = make softwares] that don't really work - work.

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Typed: Enough. Is this good enough for you? As a reviewer at verisiontracker suggested, the directions tell you to speak naturally, but if you have to watch what you're typing, so you can remember how to correct it, that isn't possible. BTW, years ago, I owned ViaVoice, Dragon and iListen - and all of them failed. I updated iListen in June 2007 with great hope. Read the reviews at several sources, friends. Your compadres - taken as a whole - don't lie.