It is true that the premiere speech to text or voice recognition software is Dragon naturally speaking. However unless a blind person has another disability that limits their ability to use a keyboard be it standard or specialized keyboard, voice recognition is not a practical alternative. First the training portion is displayed on the screen, though there are work arounds to this problem. Second, as you speak into the microphone your words are displayed on the screen so you can make any corrections. Of course it is important to make these corrections using the voice recognition since this is in effect continued training for the software to improve the accuracy rate. From what I've seen and read that even if a blind person uses sticky keys or a one-handed keyboard, they are more proficient then with voice recognition. Terri Hedgpeth Student Support Specialist Sr. Disability Resources for Students Matthews Center box 87-3202 Arizona State University (480) 965-1232 (v) (480) 965-0441 (fax) -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 6:19 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Text-To-Speech and Speech-To-Text Software --part1_12a.30a48de6.2c834fa6_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mary and all According to a technology consultant at our local Dept of Services for the Blind, the top product of the type you are looking for is Dragon Naturally Speaking, available through the website below. I have no experience with it, but the website mentions that is it heavily used in fields such as medicine and law that involve a lot of transcription.--I actually want to try it. <A HREF="http://www.ngtvoice.com/">http://www.ngtvoice.com/</A> I know someone else who uses two other products whose names I do not remember. His wife says both are idiosyncratic. Best Dorene Cornwell --part1_12a.30a48de6.2c834fa6_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><FONT FACE=3Darial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3D3 FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF" FACE= =3D"Arial" LANG=3D"0">Mary and all<BR> <BR> According to a technology consultant at our local Dept of Services for the B= lind, the top product of the type you are looking for is Dragon Naturally Sp= eaking, available through the website below. I have no experience with it, b= ut the website mentions that is it heavily used in fields such as medicine a= nd law that involve a lot of transcription.--I actually want to try it.<BR> <BR> <A HREF=3D"http://www.ngtvoice.com/">http://www.ngtvoice.com/</A><BR> <BR> I know someone else who uses two other products whose names I do not remembe= r. His wife says both are idiosyncratic.<BR> <BR> Best<BR> <BR> Dorene Cornwell</FONT></HTML> --part1_12a.30a48de6.2c834fa6_boundary-- VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List. To join or leave the list, send a message to [log in to unmask] In the body of the message, simply type "subscribe vicug-l" or "unsubscribe vicug-l" without the quotations. VICUG-L is archived on the World Wide Web at http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/vicug-l.html