The recorder showed up and the LPCM format turns out to be .wav on the Mac. Yes, I'm in business! I've had to train the Dragon Dictate3 for the recorded output essentially the same way I had to train it for my voice. It's not quite as effective as the voice training for the microphone, but I'm new at this and still learning. However, hope is strong and results are fairly good even in this early going. Thanks a bunch for all the suggestions. They are greatly appreciated.

Since the audio format question has been solved, I'll carry on the rest of the discussion on the other topic labeled "Re: Current status of speech to text?." Again, thanks for the assists and comments. They enabled me to pick a recorder that actually works on the Mac and produces an uncompressed audio file for the Mac. That was a huge help.

Last edited by JoBoy; 11/30/12 05:16 PM.

Mac Pro dual Quad-Core Intel Xeons Early 2008; 16GB RAM; MacOS X 10.11.6, iOS 9.3.5