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I recently upgraded to Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking professional 11.5 with a Bluetooth earpiece.
I find that it works even in DataCAD for text boxes, entering symbol attributes like door numbers, you place the symbol, state the number, on the second and then say okay and then you're on your next symbol.
It is kind of cumbersome but you can even say "M" "5 press enter", "zero press enter", and you can move something 5 feet to the right.
it is taking a while to get used to but slightly modified speech pattern but it may save a lot of my fingers.

Cool! "Typing" with speech is ...interesting... and it takes practice getting so you can speak what you want to write. Until you do this, it is hard to imagine how different what you write is from how you would say it.

I remember that Jim "Whack-A-Mole" Horecka had set up Dragon a lllooonnnggg time ago to work with DataCAD, too. Seems like it was a Cheap Tricks article. Evan?

I wrote an article on Dragon Naturally Speaking for Cheap Tricks -- maybe that is the one you are thinking of?

April 1999: http://world.std.com/~eshu/cheap/1999.htm

Hello Roger,

I recently bought Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 11.5 and am trying it out on a number of programs including DataCAD. I noticed that you wrote this a year and a half ago, and I'm curious as to how this program has worked out for you? Are you still using it, and on a regular basis, and on DataCAD?

So far I am pretty enthused about the ease of use and the accuracy that I've experienced using this program. I envision assigning voice commands to the CAD commands to shortcut the menus. Do you have any tips?

Thank you in advance for any advice you give.

Duane Thomson