[senit] RSI and macs

Hello - This is a query for myself, rather than for a pupil.

I'm certainly no expert on voice recognition but thought I would throw 
in my 5p's worth ..

- Interesting you state you have pain in your left & right hand although 
your using your left hand to operate the mouse - have you looked at the 
keyboard/keyboard position as well as the other ergonomic factors often 
involved in rsi? Dare say you probably have but for the record this PDF 
is quite handy: http://www.rsi.org.uk/pdf/correct_work_station.pdf
- ViaVoice has been shelved by all accounts. Have you tried iListen ? - 
reviews are mixed mind you (take a careful read of the comments : 
http://www.atpm.com/12.09/ilisten.shtml )
- (this bit is biased given my preference) Buy a mac - if you have to go 
to windows you can - best of both worlds :) Sounds like running dragon 
through Parallels doesn't work that well given the poor audio (NB: its a 
minor point but parallels isn't an emulator - its a virtual machine 
(actually a paravirtualizer))  VMWare may be the other option worth 
looking at ( http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/fusion/ )
- Leopard (the forthcoming OS X update) will have some advancements to 
VoiceOver which look nice but this doesn't help with the VR issue. 
Saying this there are some rather interesting Apple patents that *could* 
evolve into something interesting ( http://www.macnn.com/blogs/?p=134 
http://www.macrumors.com/2003/03/02/apple-patent-speech-recognition-improvements/ 
) but don't hold your breath.

Hope this helps

All the best

Will

Catherine Hunt wrote:
> Hello - This is a query for myself, rather than for a pupil.
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