Hal Swann, InspireInc.

Beacher Hal Swann of Inspireinc.com is one of those nice guys you only expect to find in a Frank Capra film. Sort of a Jimmy Stewart character without the funny accent.

"We do end-to-end film production with flexible indie team size, for independent film makers, documentarians, and educators.

"I participate in other peoples’ teams too, when they need cinematography, camera operation, film stills, post-production coordination, editing, DVD creation, 360º VR, time-lapse and related work.

That, and unconventional photography :)"

As I rely on my csutomers to educate me, when Hal isn't bringing me new customers, he's usually educating me on some part of the Mac hagiography that I missed somewhere along the way.

VocaLinks Inc.

In May 1998, Beacher Peter Butler and Phil Huffman established VocaLinks Inc. We originally specialized in speech recognition software, particularly Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the first product to allow continuous speech dictation. It had recently evolved from the one-word-at-a-time Dragon Dictate product.

Most of their clients in those early days were doctors or computer users who had difficulty working with keyboards and mice. It didn't take very long for them to figure out that unleashing the power of speech had a very broad appeal.

Words are the building blocks of human communication, and computers have proven to be very effective tools for helping us read them and write them, whether we be doctors dictating medical reports, authors writing novels or students reading textbooks, learning the meanings of words or organizing ideas into persuasive essays.

Today, VocaLinks Inc. is a provider of tools and instruction to help people do all these things. When they help you unleash the power of speech, we are helping you to communicate with your intended audience. They are helping you to speak your ideas, to hear written words spoken aloud, to operate your computer by voice and to present your ideas to others.