As I went through my email this morning, I ran across a message about the Google 411 service. It's free as most of Google is. I'm unsure if it's available worldwide or just in the United States.

[img_assist|nid=2138|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=67|height=100]Nuance is proud to offer MacSpeech Dictate, the premier speech recognition solution for the Intel Macintosh. With MacSpeech Dictate you focus on what you have to say... just think it, speak it, and create it. It's that simple. MacSpeech Dictate provides amazing speech recognition accuracy and easily works with the applications you already have, including Apple apps like Mail, iChat, iPhoto, and more. MacSpeech Dictate even controls your Mac; just speak a command and MacSpeech Dictate executes it for you. MacSpeech Dictate requires no more than five minutes of training and is as fun, productive, and intuitive to use as the Mac itself.

This is a wireless neckband called an "Audeo". It's in the very beginning stages of development. It's likened to the very first S/R programs.

David Pogue reports on the Mac OS Extender Parallels 3.0:

I also have a problem with Dragon 9.0 It will not launch. I
repeatedly get a request for a “security key” and fields for me to put

It looks like Microsoft's new IE7, which I thought was supposed to help protect against phishing scams, has a large gap in protection!

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Microsoft is investigating a possible vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7 that could help cybercrooks launch phishing scams, the company said Wednesday.

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As Microsoft is out touting the "wow" of Windows Vista, two federal agencies are among those saying "whoa."

The Department of Transportation (DOT) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cite fear of compatibility problems as one of the reasons not to allow their tens of thousands of employees to upgrade to Microsoft's latest operating system.

Found this today.
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Microsoft Corp. shares were up 1.7 percent at $27.16. It said it will buy privately held Tellme Networks, a voice-recognition technology company.

Preamble: Having just released a new version of KnowBrainer 2006 and UniVoice that will work with NaturallySpeaking Preferred 9, this seemed like a good time to introduce a new KnowBrainer/UniVoice Speech Recognition Forum.  I'd like to thank Skip Taylor for making this forum possible.

I've been wondering why there wasn't something like this a long time ago.

For the longest time I've wanted to have ONE headset to use with the land line phone, my cell phone and speech recognition. I also thought it would be ideal if it was wireless. I think I've found the answer, at least at first look! Now to figure out how to budget to be able to buy it!