Don't be trying to use Dragon Naturally Speaking if you have an accent It works great for people from NE and Western US... Texans and people from the British Isles tend to have a lot of frustration with it.

I've used it in the past, I'm faster & more accurate with a keyboard. I do have a full split keyboard which works well for me (but I'm a touch-typist). I'm glad that Dragon works well for you. For anybody using Windows 7, there's a free "Windows Speech Recognition" application built in that you can try out (under accessories, ease of access) before you buy Dragon. Dragon is much better and very much worth the purchase if speech->text works for you.

Texans and people from the British Isles tend to have a lot of frustration with it.

Funny you should mention that - my car's voice-data recognition system and I have gone round and round, and I've finally given up on her.

The gal cain't drawl fer nuttin'......

What a hoot! Well it works well for me on 90% of my words (southern). Just can't give up some of that drawl.
Mike

I use the accessibility version of that software in my Windows Vista OS. It works great and I am just about done my B.A. program with it!

The more I use it the more I like it. Being a one finger typer this is like a godsend! It saves me a ton of time.
Mike

That explains it.
Years ago, when I was a medical student trying to earn a living, I learned "blind" typing. (at that time you actually used a type-writer to type hand-written papers that were given to me by graduate students).

When computers became the norm, this skill became very handy. And it was a blessing when I was very ill, could hardly talk, nor see what I was typing.
It became the major way I could communicate with people, including at times my own family. Even now when I have less good days in which I lie in bed and can hardly talk, my husband brings me my lap top so I can let him know what I need.

This just shows the different ways in which this illness affects each of us, and the way we learn to live and adjust to it, based on our specific needs and previous skills, as well as those we acquire to overcome our limitations.