I have always been fascinated with speech recognition technology, but have never found it very useful in the past. The accuracy with which recognition software translated what I said to written words has always been very poor. Windows commands were cumbersome. I found myself spending more time correcting what I’d dictated and it proved to be an ineffective form of user input.
I’ve been running Windows Vista for a while now, but hadn't noticed the speech recognition software that’s built into it until just the other day. I decided to give it a try. I had not read any reviews, so...