dragon speaking voice recognition

[starmack]

I would welcome feedback from any users of Dragon Speaking voice recognition software. Is it worth the money? Is it good at recognising words? Is it fast? What operating system were you using at time?

Tried Via Voice in the past and was underwhelmed.

[meredith101]

Using WinXP. It was pretty impressive. I type fast so not a ton of use, given the errors and speed. I sent unedited mails to my family, pretty funny results

Blocks of love,
Merseyside

[stefos]

hi star Mac, I am using Dragon Naturally Speaking right now (hence the spelling mistake with starmack) and after a lot of blood sweat and tears I now feel that I am now practically 100% with recognition and now I have version 9 input is far more conversational -and forgiving, than earlier versions!

I was impressed that it immediately recognized the word 'Gewurztraminer', so yes, it is good at recognizing words.
It is fast and even faster if you do it through the built-in 'DragonPad "
I am using Windows XP and as for price.... you can get version 8 on eBay quite reasonably .

Good luck with it. Once you have mastered it there is a greater feeling of accomplishment!