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On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 14:32 +1030, Brian Astill wrote:
> Greetings, all.
> Can anyone help with this issue?
> 
> Person with deteriorating vision has discovered Dragon 
> Naturally Speaking which not only allows the construction of text 
> from speech but can also speak from received text.  ie letter writing 
> and email conversing etc become possible for the visually impaired. 

AIUI many of these apps actually hook into the video driver, so they can
see exactly what is being output to the screen regardless of the API
used.  Extremely clever but very difficult to port, and I would not be
surprised if it won't work with VMWare either.

Lee