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Re: Dragon Dictate Naturally Speaking - setup

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From: steven9000
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 00:00
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On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 21:25:36 +0000, Andy Mabbett
<andy@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <kZFKgYA1mUz2Ew9G@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk>, I wrote:
>
>>Dragon advise:
>>
>>In relation with your problem with Dragon Dictate version 1,I have to
>>inform that this version is not supportted any more (by 2 years at
>>least),on the other side we are guessing that you are using Windows 98
>>and this Dragon software was never tested for it.We advise you to
>>upgrade to version 3
>
>In the light of this, I'm looking to invest in some new dictation
>software; It'll be top of the range, I want to be able to use it in MS
>Office and other, non MS apps, and to use it to control both kind of
>apps.
>
>What do people recommend?
>
>I might also go for one of those with a digital "Dictaphone". What
>experience do people have of them?
>
>
>Cheers,
>-- 
>Andy Mabbett: allow me to recommend some Win 9x *Freeware* (size zipped):
> Graph paper printer: http://perso.easynet.fr/~philimar/ 342K
> Conv't measurements: http://www.joshmadison.com/software/convert/index.htm 956K
> Close all apps in 1 click: http://www.agora.stm.it/B.Kropp/freeware.html  20K
>
>        
>     
Well I can tell you this, AVOID DRAGON DICTATE!
DD is unreliable and barely recognises 'A' from 'B' and displays a
"???" instead. Advice:Go for the new IBM program they're working on,
its meant to be good :-)

Steve.
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Subject: Re: Dragon Dictate Naturally Speaking - setup
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