Dragon Naturally Speaking

[lurk]

I am not sure about the dutch part in the short term. MacSpeech used to have a program called iListen that was a dog, but around Christmas they announced Dictate which is just a port of Dragon. So the good things you hear should now be the same on both platforms.

[zeny74]

thanks lurk. As far as I can see from here on the Internet, MacSpeech is not yet available in Dutch. So we have to wait here then...

[DaveMacG]

Originally Posted by lurk

It works fine, I do this form time to time. You will have to use a USB headset, I have a Plantronics DSP 400 that works well. The only thing that can cause some problems is that parallels can get fussy about when the USB is connected. The simple rule that seems to work for me is plug in the headset before starting/waking parallels and suspend parallels before disconnecting the headset.

And yes I wish some one had been able to tell me this before I tried to get things running, it was an experiment when I did it.

Good Luck!

Hi Lurk

Reading with interest this post and appreciate your insights here. I am close to buying Dragon Naturally Speaking (as opposed to MacSpeech - their recent blog traffic has been deteriorating alarmingly) for a new Macbook Pro with Parallels for a quadriplegic patient and wanted to weigh in on this discussion.

I understand this is not an ideal solution (using a virtual PC emulation) but the stability and user friendliness of Macs makes me feel that this could be more appropriate than the PC route which requires more system expertise.

Seeing that you have expressed satisfaction in this configuration, would you be open to posting your specifications of this installation and any extra thoughts/problems on this?

Many thanks, DaveMacG