ASH is now selling iListen in the German version - at the proud price of 250 euros including headset. The US package costs 149 dollars including headset. Ok, so of course an adaptation to German had to be made first - with speech recognition software, that's quite significant. And that costs money and needs to be recouped, of course.

But has anyone already had experience with it? Probably not with the German version - but with the English one? I'm particularly interested in transcription of recordings - with the iPod and the small Belkin microphone I have a usable dictaphone and the PDA can also be used as one, so it would make sense to take notes by voice (it's faster than typing or writing) and then have them transcribed afterwards. But it's only useful if the software is really as good as advertised.

So how is it - has anyone perhaps already used the English version? Any comments?

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