MacSpeech

MacSpeech was a company that developed speech recognition software for Apple Macintosh computers. On February 16, 2010, Nuance Communications announced that they fully acquired MacSpeech.MacSpeech was established in 1996 by current CEO Andrew Taylor, a former employee of Articulate Systems, which was acquired by Dragon Systems.MacSpeech was the only company that developed voice dictation systems for the Macintosh. Its full product line was devoted to speech recognition and dictation. On September 20, 2010, Nuance corporation, the maker of MacSpeech, announced a new product, Dragon Dictate for Mac, based on Nuance's superior NaturallySpeaking for Windows product. Nuance is expected to promptly announce whether Dragon Dictate for Mac allows training by typing misrecognized words, as NaturallySpeaking now does, but MacSpeech does not.