Gaz:
I tried Dragon Naturally Speaking; to me, speech to text technology, in general doesn't seem far enough along to make me trade keyboard for microphone. I've tried several products but all aren't as smooth as I'd like them to be. If you retrain yourself to talk extremely clearly with perfect pronounciatoin, it helps. Sometimes no matter how well you speak, the software just can't get it correct. This happens frequently enough to make Speech-2-Text a break-even trade at best. If you're handicapped or really bad with the keyboard, it might be worth it though.
My Windows Vista and some XP systems have Speech to text built-in.
The microphone is a critical component, as important as the software. It's so sensitive that trading one mic for another can render the whole thing useless. Dragon Naturally Speaking comes with its own mic and demands that you use it, not your own. They're right: theirs works better with their software, but the microphone headset is stupid, uncomfortable to wear, and not one you'd choose to use.
Good luck.
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