Automatic typing software?

I remember years back, I used a program on my aunt's computer, where all I had to do was talk, and the computer automatically types the words for you... Are there any programs like that out there today?

 

Dragon NaturallySpeaking ( http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/) is pretty much at the top for regular, ie, non-niche, users.

EDIT: A competitor, ViaVoice (used to be from IBM) is at http://www.nuance.com/viavoice/

An informative article: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138262-c,voicerecognition/article.html

A website with some products: http://www.voicerecognition.com/

Regards,

z.

 

vista has it built in, and your vostro has a microphone, so you already have everything you need.

 

Eh? Really? Tell me where it is.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy9dRkCzRRQ&mode=related&search=


http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/windowsvista/speech.aspx

cheers ...

 

Sweeeet. I need to buy a mic so i can do this.

 

Thank you very much!

 

Don't forget this video:

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I love this video-Heads must of rolled at Microsoft, LOL

 

Lol Lithus!!

I saw that video a while ago and I couldn't stop laughing.

My experience with Vista's built in speech recognition has been pretty negative. It's a resource hog and frequently crashes. It barely recognized anything I said... but I suppose the recognition ability will improve over time.

What's you guys' experience?

 

How do you change the language that it picks up?

 

You can't unless you have Vista Ultimate.