Speech on Macintosh

Rob Chambers, the new GPM for my old group, is blogging about Macintosh speech recognition, asking users to tell him what they think of OS X.  While visiting Palo Alto yesterday, my friend Bill Katz showed me the new Leopard: some nicely done "eye candy" features like Time Machine, and the sorts of fun you can have on an OS that lets you go under the hood to Unix.  He didn't know about the speech stuff, which I understand is unchanged, and which frankly was a big yawn the last I checked. 

I was at Apple in 1994 when they did the "Casper" speech system, but unfortunately very little has changed since then.  It's English-only, which really limits the usefulness, and although there are a few "ear candy" type features, you just won't find much that pushes the state of the art. 

If you're a Mac speech user, and you disagree, please let Rob know what you think.