Dragon speech recognition software??

Anybody use this software? Is it worth the money? I hate writing papers, and with school now on the horizon, it looks like something that could be useful.Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I have used it for last 8 years as part of my business-mainly documenting conversations with client, doing recommendation letters to clients, etc. I think it is well worth the money and wouldn’t be without it although sometimes it is a love hate thing-I love it and it hates me. Usually it gets hung up on some of the technical terms I use for my business but you can train it to recognize those words if they aren’t part of the regular word vocabulary it comes with (which is quite extensive).
For doing basic papers I think it would be great. Spend as much time training it (at set up) as you can and don’t forget to train it as you go, especially if it keeps making the same mistakes. That and managing the vocabulary, adding words and taking words out, seems to be the key.

I’m not sure how I can post this…but I’ll try.

I sent a text message this morning and used voice recognition off my cell phone. Bit off topic I know, but the moral of the story is…PROOF READ!!

What I wanted to say:

You guys have some good editors…..

What I sent:

You guys have some dead nword…..

I have a copy of Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 Premium. It may be for sale, new in the box. I won it as a gift from work for my sales numbers, but haven’t installed it as I already had a copy. It’s a great program. Let me know if it’s something you’re interested in.

I have Dragon Professional 11. Commit to the “training” before you purchase it. It is powerful, but takes a great deal of training to get it right. Once it is trained, it is awesome.

PM sent Steve!

If you have Windows 7 or I think Vista also, you already have speech recognition in the OS.