Which email program works best with Dragon? Pros and cons?
Daniel
The basic answer to this is very short I’m afraid. The only email client that is speech friendly (Select-and-Say control) is Outlook. However, Outlook has a whole new set of Dragon issues on its own…
Personally I prefer Thunderbird. Due to its classic XP “Outlook Express” look. Well, they have been moving away from that a little bit lately…
Thunderbird is easy to control it with Intags. But MyIntags work better. I have been using it that way for many years now.
Sadly, Thunderbird is extremely speech unfriendly, so in order to properly dictate in it you will need a fast dictation box solution like the SP Boxes.
Anyway, Tom (SP 7 PRO programmer) has been working on a speech friendly email client. It’s not quite finished. Of course, I am trying to get him to complete it. After all, a simple speech friendly email client, without all the hassles of Outlook would be warmly welcomed into the speech recognition community :-). Let’s wait and see…