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To: Kenneth Kirk who wrote (43)	4/2/1999 1:18:00 AM
From: praguepivo	Respond to of 59

ahoj!! Thanks for the post....very interesting regarding saving typist fees etc, I had not even thought about that end of it. Happy Easter pivo

To: Kenneth Kirk who wrote (43)	4/3/1999 12:35:00 PM
From: Mark S.	Respond to of 59

i've always said 30 minutes of dictation is worth 2-4 hours of support staff's time. Consider the normal dictaion duties. regardless, i've seen this product demonstrated, very good, at best, but far from eliminating a typist. Where I thought could be very useful, is eliminating my direct executive assistant who follows me around(not literally)while being more organized in keeping track of my thoughts and projects etc. the applications are endless here. My origional question really comes back to: is the tech here yet or are we to wait. ps. i have word, not wordperfect, and I have to stay with word at the time being. Thank you very much for your thoughts and future responses.

To: Kenneth Kirk who wrote (43)	4/13/1999 11:45:00 AM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 59

I think I would be a little reluctant to use any dictation package to write legal documents. I know they do it, but I think it's hard to check for errors. The reason I say that is because normally what you write or type is more or less what you want to say. When you do make an error it's pretty easily caught with the spell checker. The problem I have with dictation is the errors are subtle and hard to find. The words are never misspelled. I'm using Dragon NaturallySpeaking write this. It works pretty well. One advantage Dragon might have over others is the system will play back the words you spoke so that you can read along with what the system actually printed. Perhaps this is a very accurate way to check for errors. Most of what I write can survive a few mistakes. I'm not sure I would be willing to take the same risk on legal documents. Anyway, no matter how you look at it, if you need the system just by fast computer and use it. I have the Pentium 2 running at 300 MHz with 128 MB RAM and it works pretty darn good. I'd be interested to see how much better it would work on P III. I suppose my biggest complaint is a very poor interface to Word. I don't know why, but it gives me a lot of trouble. Regards, Mark PS dictation software is worth its weight in gold when used to enter numbers. Recently, I entered about 300 trade confirmations into Quicken 99. To be able to speak that dates and numbers into the computer form while looking at the written document was amazing. Major energy savings.