Speech or voice recognition software for the PC and Mac has been available for many years now with off the shelf packages being offered by a variety of manufacturers. What has changed however is their accuracy and functionality between different platforms.
For those of you that are unfamiliar with speech recognition technology, it is essentially a computer program that utilizes a microphone connected to your computer to turn your speech into text most widely used in conjunction with word processing software such as Microsoft Word.
The software has come a long way since its first inception into the market enabling today's software to not only allow you to turn your speech into text but to actually control your computer through voice commands eliminating the need for a mouse as well.
The average person can type 45 words per minute which is three times slower then they can talk. This suggests that there is a very large potential to increase working efficiency for any profession or even hobby that requires a lot of word processing.
Writers and students who need to write tremendous amounts of text will be among the most helped by such software as it will greatly speed up their work rate. Even business managers will find it useful to speed up their report writing and hit those deadlines on time while leaving precious time for generating those business winning ideas.
There is no doubt that voice recognition can be a great time management tool but it also has a secondary benefit that often goes unnoticed. Since all that is needed is a microphone one does not need to be at their computer when using the software.
You can sit on your sofa or even work from bed which makes it perfect for people with disabilities or even infrequent repetitive strain injury (RSI) sufferers as they can rest their hands, wrists, back, and neck as you no longer need to sit in one position to use a keyboard and mouse.
For real enthusiasts, why not purchase a wireless microphone headset and dictate to your computer while doing household chores such as cooking or cleaning. The potential is virtually limitless.
There has always been one underlying problem with off the self speech recognition software and that was their inaccuracy of interpreting your speech correctly, especially for people with strong dialects.
This was mainly due to the limited computer power of your average home computer 5 to 10 years ago as the software requires a lot of processing power to be accurate. Since today's computer technology is much faster then five years ago the sought after accuracy is now a reality.
The top software programs have no trouble at being accurate at all and work well right out of the box and work perfectly within one or two hours of use after it configures to your dialect.
Voice recognition has now been reborn with the accuracy that it should have had from the start. Mobile phone manufacturers have recognized this and are using speech recognition in all their high end products. Top of the line GPS car systems also utilize it so why not take advantage of it on your PC and save yourself some precious time.
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