It has been my expirience that while Apple's speach rec software is fun, it is not usefull enough to use full time. What they need to do is have all teh spech rec controled by one master program instead of just files in a folder, so you can really customize things. It wouldn't take a whole lot to do this either. IBM has new software, i've never used it though, so i don't know if it has a better interface or not.