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Voice to Text Software

If you do a lot of typing either in email, text editor, or blogging, sometime it is nice to be able to speak and have a software translate that to text on your screen. These are known generally as "voice to text" software.

They are not going to be 100% accurate and may get confused with with heterographic homophones (words that sound the same but have different meaning and spelling). For example, the words too, two, to are homophones. They will be more accurate if you speak into a good headset microphone. The software are trained to the voice of one person and gets better the more you use it. However, it will have difficulty trying to understand the voice of different people.

Here are some examples of voice to text software ...

  • Window Vista has speech recognition built in. Click start and type speech recognition.
  • Dragon NaturallySpeaking - by Nuance software, they claim 99% accuracy and runs on Windows. There is standard and preferred versions and other versions -- see product matrix.
  • MacSpeech Dictate is for the Mac