I tried Speech Recognition in collage mainly because I hated to write. My spelling sucks and my hand writing looks like crap. Anyhow, in my opinion it does not work so well. I thought great ill never have to write a paper again or anything else for that matter. That was not the case.
My program of choice was (Dragon Naturally Speaking Pro)
Ill start with the cons first.
1. Any decent program is pretty expensive I think I paid close to $300
2. The program AI out of the box is pretty dumb. What I mean is it doesn't recognize much.
3. You really need patience because it takes a lot of training just for the program to work some what decent.
For example, I would literally read books, newspapers, magazines and just about any other thing I could find. And that takes for ever because as your reading and the program is typing your constantly correcting the program with these silly commands.
The pros:
Um...ah...oh yeah I probably read more that month than any other in my life.
Conclusion:
I gave a really good effort to try and make this work for me but in the end it was to frustrating and time consuming to deal with.
nap “As you know, these are open forums, you’re able to come and listen to what I have to say.” –George W. Bush, 10.28.03.