Deal: Dragon Dictate 4 for Mac, "freakishly fast and accurate"

Boing Boing's Shop 9:41 am Sat Jun 13, 2015

Dragon Dictate for Mac Version 4 ($99) merges fast, accurate speech recognition and versatile transcription to fit the way you work. Dictate, edit, transcribe, and control your computer with just your voice.

"The Mac version, whose 4.0 version just came out, is also freakishly fast and accurate; I can dictate many pages without spotting a single transcription mistake," David Pogue

Accurately transcribe audio of any single voice from pre-recorded audio ﬁles
Compose emails in Gmail, post to social media & search the web
64-bit application and improved memory management capabilities
Open & close windows, search your desktop, amd more
Create voice macros so you can say one thing & it types another
Create & edit documents in Microsoft Word, TextEdit, Notepad, and Pages
Work with spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel & Numbers
Create presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint & Keynote

Available for English (US/Canada), English (UK), French & German

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