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In my last column I wrote about MacSpeech is Dictate software. I had not intended that to be a review, per se - it was really my first impressions of the software. While I think those first impressions were accurate, they don't really reflect the actual usefulness of the software as it might be after you've trained it and are more familiar with how it works. So I decided to take another look and write a little bit more about the software. I think that is only fair.

I am writing this column with my voice and I'm using a headset microphone instead of my laptops built in microphone. I haven't yet decided if I'm going to edit this text after I write it. I may just leave it as it is, verbatim. The software actually works well enough now that other than a few specialized words and phrases it doesn't need much editing. I'm actually surprised at how much better it works with the headset microphone: it really does make a significant difference.