Quote Originally Posted by MarkChristensen
. . .have been concerned with the accuracy. I'm a pretty good typist - is the accuracy good enough that it will beat typing? Last I looked, 95% was kind of the top end of state of the art - but that means correcting 1 OUT OF 20 WORDS!

Does this match what folks here who are using the technology are finding?
I have heard my father dictating to his Dragon software; I can type faster than that. And I am not that great a typist (self-taught). A few months ago, he called me to dictate a long letter for me to type, and I constantly had to wait for him to catch up to me -- he's so used to dictating that slowly for the Dragon. And yes, 95% accuracy is as good as it gets, after you "train" the software. So by the time my dad fixes the many errors, I could have typed the thing twice.

However, for someone like my father, whose hunt-and-peck includes a lot more time hunting than pecking, I guess the software is useful; I'm not always available to take dictation for him. If you can type even halfway decently, don't even bother.

-andersons