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To: Cogito who wrote (43222)	2/17/2005 3:23:00 PM
From: Dan Fleuris	Respond to of 213173

Not everybody has to switch for Apple to double or even quadruple it's market share (ore even a heck of a lot more). So we'll forgive you this one cpu. But I've never seen voice-to-text software that was worth the effort. It always seems you spend more time correcting than writing - even on windoze. Every time some enthusiast demonstrates it to me, it's always, well, yeah, I have to fix this and that and it'll be trained soon and... Never happens! Best Dan

To: Cogito who wrote (43222)	2/17/2005 3:23:36 PM
From: Dan Fleuris	Respond to of 213173

Not everybody has to switch for Apple to double or even quadruple it's market share (ore even a heck of a lot more). So we'll forgive you this one cpu. But I've never seen voice-to-text software that was worth the effort. It always seems you spend more time correcting than writing - even on windoze. Every time some enthusiast demonstrates it to me, it's always, well, yeah, I have to fix this and that and it'll be trained soon and... Never happens! Best Dan

To: Cogito who wrote (43222)	2/17/2005 3:23:52 PM
From: Dan Fleuris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Not everybody has to switch for Apple to double or even quadruple it's market share (ore even a heck of a lot more). So we'll forgive you this one cpu. But I've never seen voice-to-text software that was worth the effort. It always seems you spend more time correcting than writing - even on windoze. Every time some enthusiast demonstrates it to me, it's always, well, yeah, I have to fix this and that and it'll be trained soon and... Never happens! Best Dan

To: Cogito who wrote (43222)	2/17/2005 5:58:55 PM
From: IHateSourCream	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Off Topic Hi Allen, >>...I advised a client to get a Dell notebook instead of an iBook or PowerBook...<< Well, the truth is going to come out. I've never used a Mac. I'm a PC user (but an AAPL investor). Hope the board will still tolerate me! :-) Anyway, how about Sony Vaio notebooks for your clients that need a PC notebook? I know Sony gets ragged on here a bit <g>, but I personally have used both Dell and Sony notebooks, and I've been happier with the Sony product. In fact, I recently bought a T150 P/L notebook for traveling (this was before I became an AAPL shareholder!), and I've been extremely happy with it. Any particular reason you recommend Dell? IHSC

To: Cogito who wrote (43222)	2/17/2005 9:22:50 PM
From: Stock Puppy	Respond to of 213173

What software package? For the Mac there are two major apps that perform speech processing: IBM ViaVoice for Mac OS X Edition and (you guessed it) iListen Speech recognition software which allows you to dictate, correct, transcribe, edit and format in virtually all applications; includes text macro feature; AppleScript compatible, hands free correction. I researched this type of software recently; the iListen package was rated higher than the IBM, but I did not see a cross platform comparison. Are the PC offerings much superior?