MacSpeech, Inc. announced the release and immediate availability of MacSpeech Dictate Legal, the legal professional’s speech recognition solution for the Macintosh, with support for more than 30,000 legal-specific words and terms.

Designed specifically for the legal professional and their support staff, MacSpeech Dictate Legal empowers dictating text directly into applications, and issuing numerous commands by voice, on the Macintosh. MacSpeech Dictate Legal includes a digitally enhanced, USB headset microphone. MacSpeech Dictate Legal requires Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Leopard) or higher and is available today for US$595 as a new purchase, or US$345 for current owners of MacSpeech Dictate 1.5, or US$395 for current owners of MacSpeech Dictate 1.3.

“MacSpeech Dictate Legal provides legal professionals who use Macs with unprecedented accuracy in very little training time,” explained Andrew Taylor, founder and CEO of MacSpeech, Inc. “Legal professionals often use dictation to create legal petitions and briefs, and keep client consultation records. Now with MacSpeech Dictate Legal, professionals can dictate directly into their Mac-based applications for even more productivity. We’re excited to provide a competitively priced and exceptionally accurate professional legal dictation solution for the Macintosh.”

“Having used dictation software in the legal setting for nearly 10 years, I’m thrilled to see MacSpeech bring this dictionary to the Mac,” said David Sparks, business litigation and transactional attorney in Orange County, California. “No longer do I have to waste time custom training frequently used legal terminology. Great work, MacSpeech team.”

MacSpeech Dictate Legal is the premier desktop speech recognition solution for the legal professional on the Macintosh. MacSpeech Dictate Legal provides unprecedented speech recognition accuracy with minimal training and works with existing Mac applications. MacSpeech Dictate Legal delivers a truly Mac user experience, and conforms to behaviors already familiar to Macintosh fans worldwide. Beyond dictation, MacSpeech Dictate Legal lets people perform basic navigation of their Mac and control it with their voice to launch applications, open new windows, execute menu commands, etc.

Compatibility and Availability

MacSpeech Dictate Legal requires Intel-based Macintosh hardware and requires Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Leopard) and higher.

New MacSpeech Dictate Legal solutions, with an enhanced, USB headset microphone, are available today starting at US$595. Registered customers of MacSpeech Dictate 1.5 are eligible to purchase MacSpeech Dictate Legal at special crossgrade price of US$345. Registered customers of MacSpeech Dictate1.3 are eligible to purchase MacSpeech Dictate Medical at special crossgrade price of US$395.