Speech to Text Conversion Software

1. I was looking for Speech to Text Conversion Software which can help me ease my job and my research led to following conclusions:
(a) Windows XP has an inherent speech to text recorder but it requires immense practice with software. may be more accuracy with Americal accent. One can check out the link How to install and configure speech recognition in Windows XP
(b) It is being said that Windows Vista has a higher speech to text recognition; but same needs to be corroborated. One can readabout Windows Vista Speech to Text Conversion here.
(c) A paid software is Dragon NaturallySpeaking which recognises Indian accent. I have sent a mail to them and let us see their response. Their product in India gets costlier by another $49.99 as it is the cost of shipping through DHL. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Standard view is originally $100 and one has to cater for shipping charges extra.


2. One will be better to invest in a speech to text recognition software as most people speak over 120 words per minute but type less than 40 words per minute. Thus by using these softwares one will be turning the voice into text three times faster than most people type with up to 99% accuracy.

3. The Dragon Naturally Speaking package comes with a Bluetooth headset and adapter from Plantronics, a leader in industry-standard headsets and easily installs with Windows XP.