Recommendations for Medical/Scientific Speech Recognition

I was not sure which forum would be most appropriate for this, but does anyone have experience with Mac Speech recognition in the biomedical area? I have been using Dragon Dictate on a PC to dictate clinic notes. This was a godsend, since the vocabulary is complex and hard to type, especially when really tired. The medical vocabulary actually did better on obscure terminology (it got "pinguecula" but has trouble with "cane"). It seems that Dragon on Mac is defunct and I see mixed reviews of ViaVoice and iListen. Everyone would be happier if they didn't have to read my terrible handwriting, so any help here would be appreciated. thanks, -robin colgrove

Hi Robert,
I too am looking for speech recognition software. I searched the Apple Forums and of course found references to:
ViaVoice: http://www.scansoft.com/viavoice/osx/
iListen : http://www.macspeech.com/products/ilisten/
But I didn't find any posts from any, actual
b users
of the above software. And ViaVoice, developed by IBM, but now distributed by Scansoft, of Dragon NaturallySpeaking fame, doesn't appear to have been updated since at least 2003, and doesn't appear to be Tiger-compatible, or at least that's what I made from the website and the date of the last downloadable mac update.
Also I watched a recent vidcast interview with David Pogue, author of Tiger the Missing Manual et al, where he said he uses NaturallySpeaking (available only for PCs) to dictate the text in his (mac and pc) books. Ouch! You'd think that if the Mac speech recognition products were equally good, he'd be using one of them instead?
Finally, Rebecca Freed, PCWorld's 'Mac Skeptic' columnist, posted this review in Dec 2004: Talk Back to Your Mac, which ends:
"I would need a compelling reason--such as a hand injury or a professional need to dictate while doing something else--to spend more than $100 to purchase either one."
best of luck and post what you find out,
...ben
PS. If you go with
b iListen
be sure and get a package with a microphone, as they have very specific requirements for supported microphones.

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