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Message: <blockquote data-quote="primarchone" data-source="post: 2067352" data-attributes="member: 26826">My impression of the Office suite one is that it is more of a helping aid for the handicapped. Its very bareboned with several simple functions to basically navigate the OS. Granted DNS is marketed as such as device as well, but the realm of options, customization and overall interphase with several popular word processing programs makes DNS pretty darn good compared to even other dedicated voice recognition software, let alone MS Office's meager addon.More importantly, DNS can be trained. Meaning, the more you use it, fine tune it and add to ins vocabulary, the less and less mistakes it makes until you reach that point where mistakes are few and far between.I have followed speach recognition software for many year. At the beginning they were.... well... crap.Then I tried version 6.0 of DNS. I was mighty surprised with its accuracy. Its currently in its eigth edition and interfaces well will all the modern programns (like office 2003).Mind you, I'm a neophyte with this program, its has so MANY features, I have barely scratched the surface of everything it can do. I keep learning more things (and I'm still using 7.0 at home, version 8 has more features!).Still, at around 180 bucks, unless you have a lot of other uses for it, may not be an option for just passing text to the computer.However, I have found it a great boon for my hobby pass times, since I wargame as well and I find it useful for dictating battle reports, rule revisions and a host of other game related things, besides dictating campaign logs and adventure outlines.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Primarchone</blockquote>

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