voice-recognition software

[mckitterick]

Fellow writers and computer users: Can you recommend voice-recognition software? For a number of reasons - including freedom, avoiding wrist & other pains, portability, and so on - I want to try writing without using a keyboard.

Do you use something that you would recommend? Because I plan to use this for fiction-writing, I don't care if it integrates well with spreadsheets, special codes, and so on, but it needs to be good at understanding my voice and making sentences magically appear on the computer as I talk to it. Accurate ones, ones that don't require a lot of correction via mouse and keyboard.

And if there's a demo version I can download to see what I think of it, that would be perfect.

Thank you!
Chris

Comments

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I read that and didn't see anything about what you mean; I wonder if they changed the article since you read it? Now it just says that Vista will downgrade illegal copies of policy-protected HDDVDs and Blu-Ray discs. Right? Um, I don't have a problem with that. Copyright is copyright, and if I'm trying to play a stolen movie or CD, well, that's better than jail, I say.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

This is the long academic paper on the topic. Gaaaaah! I am not going to go thru all of it, but it might interest you.

Me, I'm not into video, but I'm also not about to go away from my nice, stable Windows 2000 Professional, either.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Wow, you're still using Windows 2000? Really, XP is even more stable; it's basically 2000 with all the bugs fixed and nice new features. Oh, but it does use more than 6KB of space *g* (Note, however, that computers nowadays come with 100GB drives... 15MB is nuthin'.)