Hi Alicia, I am using Dragon naturally speaking version 8 to dictate this message to you. For a good experience with Jaws for windows and dragon, you need a middleware application. At the moment, the best one around is J-Say. The primary advantage of J-Say is that it echoes what you have just said thereby giving you feedback on what dragon is doing. When Demos of this product are given, only standard tasks are demonstrated. Please remember, that speech recognition takes a lot of training. You also need to have the right kind of hardware. Also, in my experience, editing is faster with the keyboard while dictating is faster when using speech. By the way, the latest version of dragon is Dragon version 8 and not nine as you had suggested. Do let me know if you have any more questions on this technology. I would be happy to answer them over e-mail or skype or MSN messenger. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alicia Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 3:16 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: jaws and dragon naturally speaking Hello, Everyone: I am enrolled in a speech recognition course at my local college which is a requirement for graduation and the speech recognition software of choice in the course is Dragon Naturally Speaking 9. Has anyone used Dragon and JAWS on the same machine? I was told by one person they are not compatible and another person told me that they were, however neither person could verify that they know this from personal experience. If anyone has used these two programs together I would appreciate some feedback. Thanks, Alicia -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx