That's because MacSpeech was never a truly independent offering.
Typically, this would be bad news for innovation, but the buyout might actually work to the advantage of Mac fans who are sick of running Nuance's NaturallySpeaking under Boot Camp or virtualization in order to access the far more advanced features of the Windows product. Wednesday's announcement that speech recognition giant Nuance was acquiring the scrappy Mac vendor MacSpeech means that if you want a standalone voice recognition app for Windows or for Mac, you're down to a single choice.
