Songfellow,

Thanks for that tip. I tried the voice recognition software that comes with Windows 7. But after a hour going through the training exercises, I seemed to have made little progress. Is a hour far too short a time?

As an indication of my progress, here's the last verse and chorus to a famous English folk song that I spoke, not sung, very slowly:

Cherwell run will roads and ranting you all
All are written recklessly
Between old and rare outings clear and mountains
The great Loa" and state
Umpteen gradient galley
Telling it like a real thing
Instrument autonomy and tins
A kink I would rather be dead

A malevolent a remnant on mentions dwelling
A giggle at leisure there aren't more and why
A Arabia weight late on Monday
But I'm three men on Sunday

Kudos to the first person to name the song.

John