If you are using Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard), please see KB Article 286: "Crashing when dictating into other applications under Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard).".
If you are experiencing random crashes during the use of MacSpeech Dictate in applications AND you are using OS 10.4.11, try the following:

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