The built-in Mavericks OS X speech recognition is in my opinion a good trail. I got a great Samson wireless headset from them. You really need a good headset microphone with some noise cancellation that is either Bluetooth or USB compatible. If you are going to attempt to seriously use the built-in OS X dictation, I suggest you get yourself a good microphone. Here is an example of where the Mavericks OS X built-in dictation seems to be going a bit better: Look at this:Ĭompare this with Dragon Dictate. The built in, untrained speech recognition does a reasonably good job. Unlike Dragon Dictate, there is no training involved. Under “Dictation” there is a checkbox called “use enhanced dictation.” If you check this box it will download the speech files that you need. To enable this you need to go into the System Preferences. But the OS X dictate has an option to download the speech files and then recognise your speech locally like Dragon does. It sends your speech over the Internet to Apple to be recognised. If you don’t like it, stay away! Enabling the “Enhanced Dictation”īy default the Dictation seems to be similar to SIRI based speech recognition. If you like what you see, go and buy Dragon Dictate. If you are thinking of speech recognition, the built in Maverick’s OS X speech recognition might be a good trial. The OS X built-in dictation will continue to be stuck with words it doesn’t understand. This means that Dragon Dictate will continue to improve as you use it. Accuracy and speed can both improve as the software learns to adapt to your voice. The biggest difference is the ability to learn. The biggest difference is not the accuracy or the speed. Here they compare the speed of dictation between the two programs. But no mention that the Mavericks has no learning ability. For example here at macworld they state that the accuracy of Dragon Dictate is 96.6 percent and for Mavericks’s Dictation is 89.6 percent. But most of these articles fail to address this important difference. There are lots of articles comparing the accuracy of Dragon dictate with the built in OS X dictation. The more mistakes you correct the better it gets. If you correct a word it will learn from this. One of the redeeming features of speech recognition software like Dragon Naturally Speaking (on the PC) and Dragon Dictate (on the Mac) is that even though it makes the occasional mistake, it has a correction feature. It works OK for me, but if it made any more mistakes that it did it would be un-usable without a correction and training feature. If there is a word it gets wrong, it will be getting it wrong forever. Mavericks Dictation would be to be very painful to use as a long term solution because there is no way of correcting mistakes and therefore helping it to learn. If correction arrives in the next version of OS X, it will be a game changer. The only thing lacking from the built in Mavericks dictation is correction. Despite this understated introduction, I think it’s one of the best things about OS X Mavericks. You need to turn it on by enabling a mode called ‘Enhanced Dictation’ in the System Preferences. In fact it almost comes as a hidden feature. In OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), for the first time, there is a usable speech recognition engine built-in to Mac OS X. In OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Apple introduced “dictation.” It was basically an OS X version of ‘SIRI’ where your speech would be sent off to a server to be recognised and the text would come back to your computer. There was also ‘Speakable Items’ where you could dictate short commands to the Mac. These were attempts to make the Macintosh computer human. Then in the 1990’s we had ‘Plaintalk’ and ‘Macintalk’. It sure is great to get out of that bag.” Steve Jobs said “today, for the first time ever, I’d like to let Macintosh speak for itself,” and the computer replies. You may remember the launch of the first Macintosh in 1984. Here’s how it compares to Dragon Naturally Speaking, and how to enable the ‘Enhanced Dictation’ Mode which makes it a lot faster. This is mainly due to the complete lack of any correction capability. The built-in Mavericks OS X speech recognition is a good piece of Voice recognition software to give you a taste of what speech recognition is like, but not as good as Dragon Dictate.
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