If you decide that you want to run Dragon/Win on your Macintosh, you will need a virtualization program (Bootcamp, Parallels or Fusion), a copy of Windows, and an Intel-based Macintosh. I don't know if MacSpeech Dictate has feature-parity with Dragon yet, but I do know that they released an update to the product just this past week, and it is now reportedly a very useable product. This caused quite a bit of hard feelings among some users. The performance was great, but it wasn't feature-complete because it was rushed to market. MacSpeech came out with MacSpeech Dictate (using the Dragon recognition engine) about a year and a half ago. Several users on the MacVoice discussion list report that they are using Dragon Dictate running under Windows in virtualization on their Macs with no problem. So I answer questions about this all the time.) (I have an interest in this topic because I'm the head of a huge user group for Mac-using attorneys, and many attorneys prefer to dictate rather than type their work. There is an entire discussion list devoted to voice recognition/transcription on the Macintosh:
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