Good news and what looks like a first. Dragon Naturally Speaking 4 working under Wine. ======================================= reqd riched32 and comdlg32 native from 98SE Gentoo Linux , 2.6.10-nitro4 kernel wine-20050111 Fresh Wine installation installed IE6 using sidenet Install Dragon from CD no major issues. copy missing dll's ran up Dragon , enter user name , setup sticks at setting mike level but exits cleanly. #wine gentrain.exe picks up user name , dictated training text . It saves the vocab/voix profiles the drops out with 3 repeat errors but the profile is safe #wine natspeak.exe Can now dictate in stand-alone mode as in windoze. I now need some help with the guts of Wine to see if I can capture the keystrokes output by Dragon and pipe it to another Linux thread. Any suggestions on that? TIA :) -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/