SteveP, I am confused with your statement "Philips just sold out to Nuance". This from 2003 indicates that ScanSoft bought Philips Speech Processing unit...didn't Nuance buy ScanSoft? If they did, why are they repurchacing Philips? <a href="http://australia.nuance.com/news/20030103_philips.asp" target="_blank">http://australia.nuance.com/news/20030103_philips.asp</a> oops, it appears that ScanSoft bought Nuance...then why is ScanSoft repurchasing Philips...hmmmm... <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scansoft" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scansoft</a>