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I find the Dragon NaturallySpeaking suite of speech recognition software to be the best in the field. That is of course, not to say that it is error-free - significant improvements have to be made, but given that perfect speech recognition remains something of science fiction novels, NaturallySpeaking is the leader amongst all such software.

I am a Windows Vista user. I can say that the Vista speech recognition in-built is alot poorer than NaturallySpeaking's. For one, you require a more high-quality microphone for Vista's in-built software than for NaturallySpeaking. Second, the in-built engine gets alot of words wrong that it is simply inefficient to use - NaturallySpeaking resolves these fundamental problems nicely, it really does a good job of recognizing dictation.

I found Nuance's specific library catered to Southeast Asian speakers, along with Australian and Indian English speakers a very thoughtful move. Dictation is made simpler. You just need to speak slower and clearer compared to speaking with the avergae person when you talk to NaturallySpeaking with the correct language setting. Many other such software assume an American or British English-speaking audience - as such, if a non-native speaker may use them, they also must don the correct accents for the software to work to satisfactory standards.

Indeed, Dragon NaturallySpeaking lets you speak naturally - it gets words wrong, of course, but a user-friendly interface makes it easy to correct, and a quick adaptation system makes such errors, once corrected, near-impossible to re-commit as it adjusts to your speaking style in less than 24 hours of your first use.

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