Hello,
I am disabled (Friedreich's ataxia) and consequently type at the speed of about
10 to 15 words per minute. I have fairly recently started using DragonDictate,
which, although a discrete recognition engine allows me to get quite good
accuracy (on average probably in excess of 30 or even 40 words per minute), and
is a joy to use compared to my previous "hunt and pick" typing, which was
incredibly frustrating and didn't leave me any time for thinking, so that I'd
have to slow myself down even further with plentiful pauses to mentally compose
what it was that I was saying.
Unfortunately, I believe that VoiceDirect is built on Dragon System's
technology. Even so, I imagine that DragonDictate COULD well perform somewhat
better, but I really have no idea. I CAN assure you, though, that it is quite
capable of dealing with some (reasonably slight in my case) voice impairment,
albeit with much correction for the first couple of weeks, and then achieving
accuracy of perhaps 95%, so that a certain amount of correction (which, with the
Dragon product, is remarkably easy) will always be necessary.
Hope this helps,
Chris
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