MacSpeech, Inc. Debuts MacSpeech Dictate

- Revolutionary New Speech Recognition Solution for the Mac With
Unprecedented Accuracy Makes Using a Mac With Your Voice Easier Than
Ever -
SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--MacSpeech, Inc. today debuted MacSpeech Dictate(TM), a
revolutionary new speech recognition solution for the Mac.

Now for the first time, Mac users can begin dictating straight
into their applications with very little time spent training the
software to recognize their voice. Training MacSpeech Dictate, up to a
99% accuracy level, generally takes less than five minutes. MacSpeech
Dictate performs at the highest accuracy level on the market today.
Using the new MacSpeech Dictate, user-spoken commands are recognized
separately from dictation, liberating the user from the need to tell
the software to change modes, simplifying the experience.

"MacSpeech Dictate empowers Mac users to create documents with
their voice instead of typing," explained Andrew Taylor, president and
CEO of MacSpeech, Inc. "MacSpeech Dictate delivers fast set-up, quick
command recognition, high accuracy and increased productivity, even
for those using MacSpeech Dictate simply to make their life easier."

"Apple's commitment to accessibility is evident throughout Mac OS
X, including such ground-breaking features as VoiceOver, our built-in
screen reader," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of Worldwide
Developer Relations. "We're delighted that Mac OS X users now have
access to advanced speech-to-text dictation technology from MacSpeech,
which nicely complements VoiceOver."

MacSpeech Dictate delivers a truly Mac user experience, and
conforms to behaviors already familiar to Macintosh fans worldwide.
Beyond dictation, MacSpeech Dictate lets people perform basic
navigation of their Mac and control it with their voice using familiar
commands like print, cut, copy, paste, etc. The underlying speech
recognition and dictation technology is powered by dictation
technology from Nuance Communications, Inc. (see related release,
dated today).

Far beyond empowering people for whom keyboard input proves
problematic, MacSpeech Dictate is designed to simply make computer
input easier for anyone. Whether composing email, writing a report or
even a novel, MacSpeech Dictate makes the computing experience more
comfortable.

MacSpeech, Inc. today began conducting live demonstrations of the
new MacSpeech Dictate product in Booth #607 on the Macworld Expo show
floor.

Compatibility, Availability and Pricing

MacSpeech Dictate requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher, and
requires Intel-based Macintosh hardware.

New MacSpeech Dictate solutions with a choice of headsets, will be
priced starting at US$199 and is expected to ship by February 15,
2008. Registered customers of iListen will be eligible to purchase
MacSpeech Dictate a special crossgrade price of US$99.

Upon distribution of MacSpeech Dictate to retail outlets, the
iListen product will be immediately discontinued. Anyone who purchased
the MacSpeech product, iListen, in 2008, can crossgrade to MacSpeech
Dictate for US$29 through April 15, 2008.

About MacSpeech, Inc.

MacSpeech, a Mac-only company dedicated to producing the finest
speech products for Macintosh, celebrated its ten-year anniversary
throughout 2007. Further information on MacSpeech can be found at
http://www.macspeech.com/.

MacSpeech Dictate and iListen are trademarks, and MacSpeech is a
registered trademark of MacSpeech, Inc. Nuance, Dragon,
NaturallySpeaking and the Nuance logo are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its affiliates in the
United States and/or other countries. Mac OS X is a registered
trademark of Apple, Inc. All other company name or product names may
be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Pearce Communications
Naomi Pearce, 510-528-0824
pr@macspeech.com

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