I read somewhere quite recently that the software has a real problem with Southern drawls. David Minor >A member of the New York State Library used Dragon-Speak at one time. >It was very time consuming to program her voice pattern. One has to >repeat things more than once in order for the program to identify the >word. You also had to take the time to add particular words that might >be specific to your profession. The program recognizes the more common >words and phrases in the English language anything else, you had to add >yourself. Even with that the result was sloppy at best. David Minor Eagles Byte Historical Research Pittsford, New York 585 264-0423 'dminor' 'at symbol' 'eznet.net' Visit the Canal Society of New York State page at http://www.canalsnys.org/ To be put on the mailing list for the weekly TimeMaster radio scripts (WXXI-FM 91.5), as well as a Quote of the Week and a URL of the Week, e-mail me at the address above. http://home.eznet.net/~dminor includes NYNY, a series of timelines covering New York City and State, from approximately 1,100,000,000 BC to 1991 AD. "I would undertake to supply your demands if your generosity is equal to them." -John Bartram, U. S. naturalist