P.S. (I hope its not difficult to get rolling on Snow Leopard as I am due a laptop upgrade in a few months..)

P.P.S I would say this tweak is a job for a “computer ninja” and perhaps a tad too difficult for the ‘average person’ to install.

sudo easy_install appscript

…appscript 0.2.0 is downloaded but it stops the install process when it can’t find/execute gcc-4.2…

unable to execute gcc-4.2: No such file or directory

..I know you said that we don’t need to worry about not having c-extensions but not having gcc-4.2 appears to be a problem. Am I missing something?

Again, thanks for sharing this. I look forward to trying it out!

sudo easyinstall appscript sudo easyinstall twitter

Traceback (most recent call last): File “/Users/randy/Desktop/oftwitter.py”, line 51, in from twitter.api import Twitter, TwitterError ImportError: No module named twitter.api

When Jott-to-email stopped being free, I switched to Dial2Do and have been dictating tasks to it ever since. My system relies on a modified version of the Mail filter that comes with OF, which is described here

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2008/08/dial2do-and-omnifocus/

and little setup in the Dial2Do account, described here:

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2008/10/omnifocus-command-for-dial2do/

I’ve found Dial2Do’s transcriptions to be plenty accurate for my purposes. I keep expecting it to go the way of Jott, but it hasn’t yet.

The disadvantage of a Mail-based system is that my main computer has to be running Mail all the time. Switching to your Twitter-based system would eliminate that requirement.

Installs okay (although I needed to setup setuptools using a specific version : sudo easyinstall http://www.jaraco.com/ASP/eggs/setuptools-0.6c8svn15fix.egg to avoid a missing egg problem).

However, vlingo isn’t really up to the job with my voice. Probably quicker to use Tweetie directly. Talk slowly, talk quickly, with a gap between words, without a gap between words, end result is appalling accuracy.