First, get Macspeech Dictate. It’s available for sale at www.macspeech.com, and you can save 10% on MacSpeech Dictate with Microphone by using coupon MACSPEECH during checkout. Once its loaded up it will ask you to create a profile by selecting a microphone. The stock Dictate application will not let you select your internal mic to be used as an audio input source. To get around this, we have to download two applications, the latest version of Soundflower from http://code.google.com/p/soundflower/downloads/list and LineIn from http://rogueamoeba.com/freebies/.
Install Soundflower and launch both applications along with Macspeech Dictate. If we go back to Dictate we can select “Soundflower 16ch” as depicted below.
Now go to LineIn and route the internal mic to Sounflower we select “Default System Input” and Output ” Soundflower (16ch)” then click “Pass Thru”.
Keep all these applications open and go back to Dictate and create your profile. Follow the rest of the steps in Dictate and this should allow you turn speech to text using your Mac Laptop’s internal Mic.
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Thanks for the tip; it works great!
Do I need to keep linein and soundflower open all the time while I am using Dictate?
Yes
Hey, you have to keep both applications on while you use it every time you use it.
Works perfect Thanks very much!
just a note, if you want to avoid having these programs added to your dock, then all you need to do is go to your account screen, choose your account, click on logon items, and add each one of these programs to your startup whenever you start your computer. This should alleviate any concerns or need to open the program every time you logon. ( I wrote this on dictate)
A friend and I both bought our 17" laptop computers around the same time. Actually, I had just ordered mine from Dell when she walked in with her new HP computer. It's a good thing I had ordered mine already, the new laptops with the wide screens are way cool.
Thank you.
Why don't you lazy ignorant sloths just learn how to type????
did you ever think some people don't have hands?
it was ok at the microphone setup, everything worked well, until the voice training, i can't even say a word?