Kerry Raymond wrote: > The problem is the little words ("and", "are", "at", "or", "on", "in", > "the", "they", "there", "their" etc). When we speak a sentence normally, we > tend to say these little words quickly and often only make the vowel sound > ("ah", "eh", "oh" etc) which makes it very hard to recognise exactly which I haven't noticed this problem in either ViaVoice or Dragon Naturally Speaking. Both do some sort of statistical analysis that uses nearby words to help decide. The problem I HAVE noticed is that I need to keep looking at the text and avoid looking at the screen. Any time I pause, the program tries to transcribe every tiny little sound that happens as one of those "little words." -- Wes Groleau "In the field of language teaching, Method A is the logical contradiction of Method B: if the assumptions from which A claims to be derived are correct, then B cannot work, and vice versa. Yet one colleague is getting excellent results with A and another is getting comparable results with B. How is this possible?" -- Earl W. Stevick