“You talk, it types …”
So goes an ad campaign for speech recognition software. Is it that simple? Not quite. Last year at this time it looked as if speech recognition was close to being ready for prime time. All of the major speech recognition companies rolled out continuous speech recognition software with great promise, and most industry analysts predicted that speech recognition would be ready for prime time within another year, as the improved speech recognition software and a new generation of desktop hardware converged to bring dictation to the desktop.
