<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Not so much "wrong" as "not taking everything into account"...<div><br></div><div>Dragon Systems was founded in the early 80s and employed probably a couple of hundred people at its peak. I don't know how many people are involved in development at Nuance, but it isn't a handful... This means that Naturally Speaking has had immense resources thrown at it since its inception.</div><div><br></div><div>MacSpeech is a relatively young company, with few employees, and has had to be very prudent in order to make sure that the company survives and is able to keep on improving its product. (Remember, IBM tried to enter the Mac speech recognition market and failed miserably.)</div><div><br></div><div>It would be no exaggeration to say that DNS has had over 100 times the resources invested in it than MacSpeech Dictate when you look at the big picture. It has had plenty of time to mature - the first really usable version, though, was version 4.</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew and his team are developing the product at a pace that is consistent with the survival of the company and with the resources available. Whilst doing so, they also manage to attend trade fairs (including MacWorld, which is not cheap) and have an on-going roadshow around the country. They have single-handedly kept speech recognition on the Mac platform alive when other, bigger, companies said it was impossible.</div><div><br></div><div>There is a lot more that I could say, and would like to say, but as Valerie points out, we take NDAs seriously.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, I'm not sure what your massive investment in Mac hardware is meant to prove as far as this discussion is concerned...</div><div><br></div><div>Gavin</div><div><br><div><div>On 31 Aug 2008, at 05:36, Arnie Rosner wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">After all of this effort on my part, I am forced to resort to using A PC and Dragon 10. Now this is a product worthy of attention. It delivers on its promises as far as I am concerned.<br><br>So please show me where I am wrong on this. I would appreciate the clarification.</span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>