The two companies are Dragon Systems and IBM.
I'll post more in another message soon, late for work.
Critical point is noise floor of the sound card.
Current leader for s/n: Turtle Beach Pinnacle or Fiji.
Downside: Turtle Beach is a small company, sometimes has to
orphan products rather than write new drivers for them.
You can also check comp.speech newsgroup, it's buzzing.
MMB
>I did see a IBM/ Microsoft product that was only $50 that claimed you could
>speak and have the machine type your words. ANYONE HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE WITH
>THIS OR SIMILAR PROGRAM?
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>Warmest Regards to all,
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>Rudi ( I need to develop a more creative screen name... this happens to be my
>*real* one!)
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