Thanks for that help. However I have now tried the free natlink with vocola macros and it works a treat with the cheaper standard version of dragon naturally speaking v8 (There is a version for v9 too) :-) So I can now run my scheduler macros simply by calling them from a vocola macro which is fired...

Thanks, Tried e-speaking but could not get it working with vista. I found 'natlink & vocola' on this "create macros using Python in any version of NaturallySpeaking " See:- http://speechwiki.org/NL/RelationshipBetweenNatLinkVocolaPythonAndDNS.html http://speechwiki.org/NL/HomePage.html anyone used t...

I've read it and it's what I know, you say the short cut keys. Really what I need is an interface from vista's voice recognition that will fire of a macro schedular with saying a word or short group of words, such as "Open my ebay window". I have Quick buttons, but I may need to set up hundreds of v...

Thank you very much for such a prompt reply

I'll take a look at that

From what I know only the professional version of dragon dictate can run exe's from a voice command (or send keys that an external program could pick up on ) and it costs over £500 !!! for the professional version. So to do this with Dragon dictate alone you would need to speend a lot on the...