Naturally Speaking w/ Boot Camp or Parallels

This sounds like an excellent question for Parallels tech support. My gut reaction would be that you need separate dictation software for Windows and Mac. However, Parallels 3 has features that I don't completely understand which, however, integrate Windows and Mac OS in certain ways. For example, even in earlier versions, the mouse is shared (via Parallels Tools, which is installed in Windows) between Windows and Mac OS. Without Parallels Tools, the mouse is either stuck inside the Windows window or not accessible to Windows, but with it, Windows is just another window as far as the mouse is concerned. You can set up Parallels so that hyperlinks from Windows apps can be opened in your default Mac OS browser; Mail is similar. There is also something called "coherence mode" which allows Windows apps to at least geometrically break free of Windows. So I think you are asking if the keystrokes that Naturally Speaking converts your dictation into can be input into Mac apps and not just Windows apps, and it sounds like Parallels, the company, might have the technology to do that. I'm just not sure whether that technology has been implemented into Parallels the product for the specific application of it that you need.

I use Dragon Naturally Speaking Standard 9 on a mac mini 1.83 GHZ, 1 MB RAM. On the bootcamp partition in Win XP. Works beautifully. It comes with its own Dragon Pad word processor and when you have finished, you can save as an RTF doc, so that you can then use it on the Mac side in any application which opens RTF, which of course is just about anything. Of course if you have MS Word for Windows, you can use that but you don’t have to buy it especially.