Timeline for would like to create memoirs by talking into computer and having software convert the speech into text into a document like MS Word
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| Jul 12, 2015 at 23:37 | comment | added | unknowndomain | I have to say this is very much my opinion from seeing both grandparents struggle to use a computer at all let alone fancy voice recognition software. Also the microphone plays a massive part in the quality of the software as does the training... I would suggest trying the Dictate feature in OS X and in iOS but it's not designed for long dictation, so also try out that app. | |
| Jul 12, 2015 at 23:34 | comment | added | user3439894 | I use Nuance's Dragon Dictate v3 for Mac and it works great! Granted I do have a high-end Bluetooth Plantronics Headset, did the training, even though it wasn't absolutely required, it makes a big difference. My 95 year old father also uses the Windows version all the time as he really hates to manually type at his age. He started using it a few years ago and picked it up like second nature, so If he can master using it then the OP's 82 year old father probably can too. | |
| Jul 12, 2015 at 23:18 | history | answered | unknowndomain | CC BY-SA 3.0 |