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Speech recognition technology has come a long way since my first exposure to it in the summer of 1995. Today, even using the free Microsoft engine you can achieve some astounding results. Speech recognition is on its way to becoming ubiquitous and no doubt will be interacting with our computers more and more by voice as time goes by.

I use speech recognition technology several times a day. When I am writing an article, I use SpeechRec to capture the outline of the topics I want to cover. Then with the outline in front of me, I use SpeechRec to capture the first draft of the article or blog post, yes, even this one.

But as good as speech recognition is it still requires some editing. Even when the engine perfectly recognizes everything I say, I still need to edit the text. Why? Because there is a basic difference in the way we present our thoughts orally and the way we present them in written form.

Yes, I know you can even do the editing using voice commands but for me it just seems faster to do the final edit with the keyboard.

I have noticed an interesting trend. I realize I am not as dependant on the outline as I was before. I am trying to ween myself off of that step. Then I will simply jot a few thoughts down and dictate the first draft. Since, my goal is to turn out one blog post and at least one article each day, I should get plenty of practice.