Voice recognition in Windows XP and Windows Vista
If you are looking for free speech recognition software and your computer is running Windows Xp or Windows Vista then you are quite lucky since both come with built-in voice recognition.
Firts of all there are a few things you should know about voice recognition - the technology is not "quite there yet", so if you expect that you can type 100% "hands-free" using the voice recognition then you might be dissapointed. In many cases no matter how clear you speak the software will keep typing the wrong word, and you’ll keep correcting it, it can get quite frustrating.
What can you do to improve the voice recognition accuracy?
The one and most important factor is having a very good microphone, also take note that voice recognition uses a lot of computer resources therefore running it on older PC might be quite cumbersome.
Ok, now that you are ready to get your feet wet here are two very good articles:
Speech Recognition with Windows XP