Your right Mayo, he uses it exactly as we do, we speak... it types, then you run it through the editing process and your done. We use to use Appleworks, now we speak to Word mostly, but can speak to Entourage, for email.
Using iListen you can speak to any application, ViaVoice, for example works best on it's own notepad. The problem with that is once you have what you want, you need to move it, then reformat the page.
No doubt Dragon is a very good program, and its price is reflective of that fact. For Macs, the cost is prohibitive to most consumers, upwards of $900.00
Here's a few links to add to your collection.
SB, Pogue isn't just dictating something for later transcription... I think that he dictates and his word processing program types it as he speaks. At least that is how
I understand it. The Pogue link that I provided in my last post points to an article he wrote about using the software.
The idea is appealing to me because I wouldn't mind avoiding typing if at all possible...
When I was a paralegal I did a LOT of dictation, but we used the larger office recorders common in the late 1970s. It sure was sweet having someone to do all my typing for me!