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Best Speech to text software

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My dad hates typing. Can someone suggest me some good speech recognition softwares using which my dad just speak and it should automatically convert it into text in MS Word?
 
Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking is pretty much the industry standard and has been for a long time now - unfortunately because it's considered to be the market leader the price is (what I'd consider) to be a bit higher than it's worth, starting at around $300 for even the consumer product. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to really be any cheap alternatives unless you consider that Windows itself has had some fairly decent speech recognition capabilities for a while now. It started with Windows Vista, then Windows 7 made it much much better, and since I never used Windows 8 or 8.1 all I can do is assume it's in there and also in Windows 10 as well.

Here's an older review from 2014 where someone did a rather limited comparison of Window's speech recognition (WSR) vs Dragon NaturallySpeaking and the results were about as expected, almost even:

Lamont Wood: Windows Speech Recognition vs Dragon NaturallySpeaking (shootout)

That would be my recommendation, use the built in WSR and make sure to get a decent headset or desktop microphone and do more training than just the one time setup - in fact training it through all the available training sessions is what I'd recommend. Sure it'll take some time to get it done and going back and redoing them once or twice more helps but not everyone will go that far.

It's good enough for basic speech recognition purposes and creating documents in Microsoft Word, definitely, and a lot less money. :)
 
Does that work in games too? I used to use Game Commander for voice commands in games but it is very old now and also not reliable. Say gun and it gave me the knife. waaaaat? Gun does not even sound like knife.

Windows has speech to text built in now. Did he try that first? Look in Accessibility folder then Windows Speech Recognition.
 
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