<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">And don't forget that DNS Pro is *significantly* more expensive than iListen! And she would need Pro if I've understood the situation correctly.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>For the moment, I'd advise trying out the latest iListen, making sure she has a good mike and does the training in depth, and that she runs a good bunch of docs through "Learn my writing style".</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Then it's basically a case of remembering that you're talking to a computer not a human. If it makes a mistake, the worst thing you can do is get cross with it and change your "tone" - it'll ruin your recognition accuracy. This is a piece of software where reading the manual is not optional if you want to use it properly and get the best out of it, too.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Gavin</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 10 Jul 2006, at 22:50, Frank Flynn wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 10, 2006, at 1:36 PM, William Robinson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The new MacBooks (which come with a special student price) can run windows and Naturally Speaking, without giving up the MacOSX environment.</FONT></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Let's be careful here - the new Macs will run Windows but you will have to buy Windows ($80 to $300 depending on features) and currently you _will_ loose the Mac OS X environment while you're running windows because it can only run one or the other. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There are rumors of a more integrated environment coming sometime (maybe Leopard - whenever that comes out) but to my knowledge anyway Apple has made no announcements or promises in this regard. The current implementation is officially "Not Supported" by Apple and while it does work you can get into some situations where the solution is not simple.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Frank</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>