Speech Recognition to save your wrists

Sample of Microsoft Windows 8.1 speech recognition, dictating into WordPad using a headset microphone. I slowed my speech just a little and spoke more distinctly than normal, which does help out the program.

The first paragraph is before training the program for my voice. All-caps words are where I had to go back and edit following dictation, words within square brackets are what speech recognition thought I said.

Although it's never an issue for those among us who LOVE [loved] TO be the first to UPGRADE [have worried] to the latest version, WINDOWS [when those] HAS [whose] A life cycle. Microsoft releases a new version of windows, AND IT [you do] remains current for a few years. Then, Microsoft releases a newer version of windows, and continues to release UPDATES [of the AIDS] FOR AND SUPPORT [forehands were] both the current and previous versions.

After six minutes of training, which has to be done only once per user of the computer:

So, at some point, windows 8.1 is going to become outdated, and Microsoft is going to stop releasing updates for it and supporting it. The company hasn't announced exactly when that will be, but Microsoft commits to supporting and releasing updates FOR [ were] a minimum of five years from the date of A products general availability, OR [were] for two years after the successor product is released, whichever is longer. Based on that, I would expect Microsoft to support WINDOWS [-] 8.1 until at least October, 2017.

Notice the dramatic reduction of errors, 9 down to 4. People who have to generate large text documents can get a lot of help from speech recognition. I used it to renew a 110-page procedures document when I was on the security staff at Dobie Center in Austin.