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Speech Recognition Doesn't  

Key: [incorrect word = correct word] {word wasn't spoken} ex: the first word was "Perhaps." iListen typed "Passing." --begin-- [Passing = Perhaps] the best way to describe my experience with iListen it is to dictate with iListen. I have done nearly all of the training exercises. I've followed 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] if [you = you're] using [the = this] software. But looking at Mac user, version tractor, and [go goal = Google], one can find 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. --end-- 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. [alert admin]

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Saturday, August 04 2007 @ 08:06 AM PDT

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Speech Recognition Doesn't  

Key: [incorrect word = correct word] {word wasn't spoken} ex: the first word was "Perhaps." iListen typed "Passing." --begin-- [Passing = Perhaps] the best way to describe my experience with iListen it is to dictate with iListen. I have done nearly all of the training exercises. I've followed 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] 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. --end-- 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. [alert admin]

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Saturday, August 04 2007 @ 08:05 AM PDT

IntelliMerge 5.1 (Mac OS X)

Irritations  

I hesitate to rate IntelliMerge until I can compare it to something else. But the point is, I will compare it to something else because of these events. I have used it for 12 Bulk Emails Pleasures >Entering custom HTML or Plain text is cut and paste simple. >Easy to follow navigation. Took fear out of the process. (Note, I have someone else do my HTML programming. I just cut and paste out of BBEdit Lite.) > Failed emails are clearly identified > It works; with the following caveats. Irritants (in order of appearance): > Import maps to the wrong fields when the address has a paragraph mark for two address lines. This can put the email in the wrong field. > This software cannot be programmed to deliver a specific number of recipients per hour. IntelliMerge admits this in their documentation. This means dividing larger databases into smaller ones. This is tedious. > Large databases cannot be split into smaller ones inside Intellimerge; dividing must be done in Filemaker, Excel, Now, or other program. > The "Send Later" function cannot be programmed to handle more than one database at a time. You can tell it to send one db at 6 AM central (for 7AM east coast delivery), but you cannot ALSO set the batch to go at 7, 8, 9, etc. It can only send the one at 6 - you'll have to wake up to send the one at 7. This reduced the program from an automated helper to a program that had to be babysat. After the first batch, it's a one-at-a-time manual program. > If you type a "7" into the "Send Later" date, it will default to "17." You have to type "07." > When you tab to the default 10PM setting, no matter what number you type, it simply will not change the first time. You have to cancel, re-enter, and then it will change. > Documentation, while logical and infomative, does not get into detail. I could not find, for example, whether to use the "set it" function to change the "import" status to "ready." It doesn't explain what "set it" really is, and the differences between the many options in it. Bottom Line: It works, I bought it, I can create work-arounds. But I will look for something that allows me to time my sending rather go through the tedious process of breaking databases up. [alert admin]

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Tuesday, November 07 2006 @ 07:14 AM PST

Best CRM for mac, but . . .  

So, what do you use? Heap? No internet, no info. Entourage? Talk about lack of integration . . . Daylight? Clumsy, clunky, crashes . . . NOW? No email integration; this ACT spin-off is still probably the best, which isn't saying much. None of them are very good . . .

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Tuesday, August 12 2008 @ 06:44 PM PDT