Well, today I tried Microsoft's voice recognition with a student in 7th grade. This student has struggled with illegible handwriting since elementary school and is now barely passing middle school due to behavior issues. I wanted to give voice recognition a try with him to see if it would motivate him to begin to complete classroom work. He was able to complete the training with very little difficulty and was able to read the training text even though I initially had thought that it might be too hard for him. He is at grade level academically, so the reading level for training is probably around the 7th grade level. I made the mistake of recording into my voice file-didn't realize that until we were halfway through the training--and didn't know how to create a new user. Needless to say, the voice recognition wasn't very accurate but regardless, he was impressed and excited about the technology. He is going to try voice recognition at home on his mom's laptop--maybe this will motivate him to start completing work at school.
Since then, I have researched how to create a voice file for a new user. You need to go into the control panel and select "speech", then "voice recognition". Then from this point you can create a new user and train your voice. Although Dragon Naturally Speaking is supposed to be the most accurate, it looks like Microsoft Word does pretty well--plus it is free!
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