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On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 6:04:56 +1000, Hylton Boothroyd wrote
(in message <1fxj99s.n7yml21u4uc08N%hb-jtb@dircon.co.uk>):

> Michael <mitchins@mac.com> wrote:
>> My wife has a manuscript that she needs to enter into Word, being a one
>> finger typist it will probably take her until the next century if she does 
>> it
>> manually, so, she is looking to get one of the aforementioned applications 
>> to
>> make the process faster and less painful.
>> 
>> Question is, which one is the easiest and most reliable for basic 
>> dictation.
>> Any comments, suggestions or opinions welcome.
> 
> A comment. There is an extended review of Via Voice for OS X on
>     http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-615.html
> An earlier version is reviewed in 561.
> 
> There may be later guidance around--it's 8 months since I looked into it
> for myseIf and decided to give low priority to implementing the version
> for my pre OS X system (I still haven't implemented it).
> 
> I seem to remember there was a fairly well-developed view that voice
> input on Macs was lagging behind Windows machines.
> 
> You might encourage useful comments by specifying your versions of Word
> and Mac OS.

Sorry, I'm using OSX and Microsoft Office X.

To those suggesting the scan option, I agree with what you say, but you 
haven't seen my wife's handwriting!!!

I don't think any OCR software could translate it :-)
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