Thanks David. ----- Original Message ----- From: David Poehlman To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 7:02 PM Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: sound and speech anotation and dictation it uses a microphone to record your voice and turns it into text on the screen through a technology called speech recognition. it is not terribly friendly with voiceover and the microcrophone needs to be attached to a headset and they sell combos like that for that and other purposes. On Sep 2, 2009, at 9:57 PM, jim rawls wrote: how does this program work? my sighted wife is going to ask me that. smile. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: David Poehlman To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 6:27 PM Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: sound and speech anotation and dictation well, dictation would be using ilisten a program for typing with your voice from macspeech. I don't know about the other stuff. On Sep 2, 2009, at 9:18 PM, jim rawls wrote: Hi all, as you know I am thinking about switching to the Mac. Well, the adult Ed program is teaching a class called Mac for the very beginner. One of the things he is going to cover is what the subject line says here. What the heck would that be about? Any ideas? Jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.75/2341 - Release Date: 09/02/09 05:50:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.75/2341 - Release Date: 09/02/09 05:50:00