HI Michael. Yes, by far the leader in computer based speech recognition is Dragon and for sure over the past few years its come on in leaps and bounds. The current version from a recognition perspective gives very high levels of accuracy literally without any voice training. What I mean by that is the days of having to sit and read text to the computer are now long gon! Depending on whether your friend is visually impaired or not, you may need to look at the screen reader accessibility sie of things, and that in turn may mean you need to consider the higher priced professional dragon product, however if not then for sure you can get a Dragon product very reasonably priced that will effectively assist in text computer input. Hope that is of some help? Terry Clasper. E-Mail, terry.clasper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Twitter: @terryclasper -----Original Message----- From: access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael A. Ray Sent: 03 January 2013 19:47 To: Access-UK Subject: [access-uk] Speech Recognition Software Recommendations Hello list, I know a lady who is a programmer. She is suffering with a condition which is going to make typing more and more difficult. I have suggested to her that she might like to investigate options as far as speech recognition software goes. Does anybody on the list have any experience of this and have anything to say about it? The only name I have in my head is 'Dragon'. Mike -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK Ham Radio Callsign: G4XBF, licenced since 1982 Use the NVDA screen-reader, not Scientific, just Freedom: http://nvda-project.org/ ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq