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Dave,

Thanks for the complement.

The 33 foot range will typically be cut in half when you move from one examination room to another because of the dividing wall but the only safe approach would be to turn the NaturallySpeaking microphone off before leaving each room.

I haven't worked with Amazing Charts in about 3 or 4 years but the last time I saw it, I noted, what I consider to be, a single design flaw. Amazing Charts is ideally suited for touch screen usage and mouse clicking but not ideally suited to macro implementation such as third-party command applications like KnowBrainer 2008 or hardware that utilizes Hotkeys such as the Nuance PowerMic II or the Philips SpeechMike line. What would make Amazing Charts perfect would be if the developers were to add hotkeys to every menu item; like Microsoft Office. Once you have hotkeys in place, you can simply assign hotkey shortcuts to the SpeechMike buttons. However, with the exception of the F1 - F3 buttons, most popular NaturallySpeaking features are natively available in the SpeechMike and don't require Hotkeys. Features like ‘Press to Talk’, ‘Microphone on/off’, ‘Play from Cursor’, ‘Playback Toggle’, ‘New Word’, ‘Train Word’, ‘Move Cursor Backward’, ‘Move Cursor Forward and ‘Show Correction Dialog Box’ are all available.

Note that we haven't seen a recent version of Amazing Charts and for all we know, hotkeys may have been implemented in the last few years and if so, you'll have additional options.