I use Dragon naturally speaking all the time, although I often refer to it as Dragon unnaturally speaking! Having said this, I would be lost without it!

I hope the Google speech recognition works better than the speech recognition on my android phone as most of the time, it seems absolutely useless, or have I just had a bad experience with it?

To conclude, I would definitely recommend speech software, it saves me a lot of time. Just make sure that your computer has plenty of RAM as I believe it uses quite a bit.

Roy

My old rig crashed on me last week as if the devil was playing with it. I hope to get a new one today and I will check it as soon as I'm set up again.

Here's other free sources for both Mac and Windows

Mac Dictation https://www.macworld.com/article/3108658/macs/how-to-use-dictation-on-your-mac.html

Windows Dictation
https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/14213/windows-how-to-use-speech-recognition

This is great news, Craig! I'm going to check this out.

Thanks for posting this.
Sue

This is great to be able to give a new system a try. Never done voice recognition.

Thanks for the post. I had just been doing some research into free Dragon alternatives after reading the other post. I am curious to see how well dictation might work for me but I am not in the position where I can be spending money to do it. Will definitely check out your training!

Voice recognition is something I have never used. However, it's good to know what's available in the event of needing it in the future.

In fact, I might give it a try just for the experience.

Many thanks, Craig.

Windows 7 and above has a speech recognition system built in.
Windows speech to text. To be honest I have really only set it up last week and have gone through the training.

I will test it this week to see how it goes.

Alex

I use Dragon too. One definitely has to proofread and edit carefully but it's great for a more conversational style of writing.

-Mark

Sounds like a handy app. Dave