Thanks Andrew & Chuck. Got it running & dictated on the note pad. No problems yet. I am using a logitech headset that has a boom. So far works great. I am sure I will return with more questions. I have an 8 page newsletter to put out. I use “pages” to do that. TIA David Life can be great if you work at it. On Oct 2, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Andrew Taylor wrote: > The data DMV is the information the program needs to recognize speech. Launch Dictate and it will ask you to mount that data disk during the program startup process. Yo can also mount both at the same time. You only need the data disk once when Dictate runs the first time. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 2, 2010, at 4:24 PM, david <dcalvin41 at me.com> wrote: > >> Chuck, >> thanks for the info. Sounds like APE is something to stay away from. I rarely have any problems with my MBP but then I don’t have many 3rd party apps for “improving” my Mac. Don’t run into the problems some have when upgrading Apple software. *Big Grin* >> >> I just purchased Dragon Dictate but have not got it up and running yet. I really need to because I have bi-lateral carpel tunnel syndrome & neuropathy. >> >> I downloaded the app. One think that puzzles me is the there were two dmg files in the zip file. The application file & a file called “Dragon English Data.dmg” . I installed the app by double clicking on the dmg. But when I double clicked on the “Dragon English Data.dmg” file nothing happened. What is this file? >> >> TIA >> David >> Life can be great if you work at it. >> >> On Oct 2, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Chuck Rogers wrote: >> >>> >>> APE: http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/ape >>> >>> Golden Rule: http://www.macspeech.com/extensions/docs/iFrameContent.php?q=dictate_help/1.5/dictatefolder/golden.html >>> >>> >>> On Oct 2, 2010, at 2:17 PM, david wrote: >>> >>>> What is “APE” & why would one want it? >>>> >>>> Also what is the “Golden Rule”? >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacVoice mailing list >>> MacVoice at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >>> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macvoice >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacVoice mailing list >> MacVoice at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macvoice > _______________________________________________ > MacVoice mailing list > MacVoice at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macvoice