Voice recognition: Sound technology
At long last, voice technology lives up to its billing

From: Federal Computer Week - January 7, 2002 - page 32
By: Patrick Marshall 

With the release of new versions of the two market leaders - IBM's ViaVoice
and Lernout & Hauspie Holdings USA Inc.'s Dragon NaturallySpeaking - voice
recognition technology has finally reached a stage where it is useful for a
broad range of professionals. 

For now, the two products we examined represent state-of-the-art professional
dictation-and-command capabilities on desktop computers. We found both
products to be highly capable, delivering a high level of accuracy once fully
trained. You'll still need to edit most documents to catch occasional errors
and to tune formatting, but either product will save you a lot of time in
data entry, especially if you're a slow typist. 

We also found that both programs are effective for navigating applications
and issuing commands, such as Open File. Both programs even allow you to
create macros for inserting blocks of text or performing complex operations. 

Both programs, in fact, offer virtually identical feature sets, including
optional specialized vocabularies for medical and legal offices. And both
programs are available in various versions, offering different subsets of
features at different prices.  

Read the entire review at:
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0107/tec-voice-01-07-02.asp