Has developed into an excellent program! - VancouverRMT
Yes, some people criticize Dictate for the wrong reasons, and they need to actually read the documentation. And, yes, the recognition engine is good. Unfortunately, there are also so many good reasons to criticize Dictate. You know you are going to be dealing with some user-unfriendly design when it launches, throwing up a window that floats above everything else you have open, so you can’t do anything else while it launches. This is the kind of brain-dead development sensibility that underlies the application apps overall poor infrastructure. Another good example of a what-the-hell-were-they-thinking irritation is the lack of a close button on the status window. Yes, that’s right, after 18 months of development, it still hasn’t occurred to anyone at MacSpeech with power over the code that it’s nice to be able to close a window without having to switch to the application that owns it and drill down into a menu. Seriously, what the F? These aren’t critical flaws, but they reveal a serious lack of interest in user experience.
The critical flaws are the routine hanging and crashing!
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Has developed into an excellent program! - VancouverRMT
Yes, some people criticize Dictate for the wrong reasons, and they need to actually read the documentation. And, yes, the recognition engine is good. Unfortunately, there are also so many good reasons to criticize Dictate. You know you are going to be dealing with some user-unfriendly design when it launches, throwing up a window that floats above everything else you have open, so you can’t do anything else while it launches. This is the kind of brain-dead development sensibility that underlies the application apps overall poor infrastructure. Another good example of a what-the-hell-were-they-thinking irritation is the lack of a close button on the status window. Yes, that’s right, after 18 months of development, it still hasn’t occurred to anyone at MacSpeech with power over the code that it’s nice to be able to close a window without having to switch to the application that owns it and drill down into a menu. Seriously, what the F? These aren’t critical flaws, but they reveal a serious lack of interest in user experience.The critical flaws are the routine hanging and crashing!
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