MacSpeech, Inc. was a New Hampshire-based technology company that produced software-based speech recognition and voice dictation solutions for the Apple ecosystem.

)[2] Seeing a continued need for a Mac-based speech-to-text solution, MacSpeech was founded in 1996 by Andrew Taylor, a former employee of Articulate Systems[3] experienced with software-based speech recognition technologies.

First released in 2000, by 2006 iListen was the only third-party software product that allowed voice-to-text input on the newer MacIntosh models requiring OSX.

This is the same technology that powers speech recognition in Dragon NaturallySpeaking for the PC, although across platforms there are significant differences in features, functionality and integration.

One major difference with MacSpeech Dictate was that it did not allow training by typing misrecognized words as Dragon NaturallySpeaking products do on Windows.

MacSpeech Dictate 1.0 was reviewed by David Pogue of The New York Times, who said it filled a "big [hole] in the Macintosh landscape", but criticized it as inferior to Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.0 for Windows.

[9] MacSpeech Scribe is speech recognition software for Mac OS X designed specifically for transcription of recorded voice dictation.