Can you make up your mind, please? Do you regard automated voice recognition as a threat to your privacy, or not? Is there some reason you think it's lot easier to recognize a spoken "NSA" than "Three One Four One Five Nine Two Six Five Four"?
Let's give it a try ... (this is with a copy of DragonDictate Professional running on a Pentuim 90 with an IBM DSP card handling some of the work. Not exactly cheap, but well within budget for our purposes.) 3141592654. NSA. That wasn't too bad now, was it? Of course, the NSA wasn't in the default vocabulary, but then again, neither was the NSO. Is this government censorship? Now then, does anybody have a nice high quality radio bug we can stick on Nat's telephone? Maybe we'll be able to spoof their PR Agency, leaving them helpless :-) Disclaimer: I have a huge amount of respect for all the individuals at first virtual; they're all greats from the field of Internet mail. However I think this biases them towards a mail based solution, even when this isn't the best way to tackle the job. I'm disappointed that they have to stoop to this level in a desperate attempt to hold what seems to be an untenable market position, when there is so much important work they could all the doing. Simon
Consistancy is a wonderful thing - you should try it sometime.
Consistency is also pretty good :-) (at least with voice recognition, the typos are spectacularly catfish wombat haddock).