"Wes Groleau" <groleau+news@freeshell.org> wrote in message news:HIMqj.30936$xE.5368@trnddc01... > > Even with genealogical material--lots of names of people > and places, not in the program's dictionary, AND interference > from noise in the house, I still manage to average 1200 words > per hour including time for corrections and "retraining" the software. > > Dragon Naturally Speaking is better than ViaVoice. > I agree. I had VV at work, and dragon at home, but am now so pleased with Dragon that I'm only usin it. With training it can cope with the scottish names of my local history research and the pseudo-latin we use for microbial names at work. Faded typescript and photocopies sometimes becomes more legible if photocopied through coloured transparant material (yellow seems to work on thermal paper) and scanning and then playing with colour mixes in Photoshoip or the like can help. Lesley Robertson