Article: Talking to your computer: you're not crazy, go ahead.(voice recognition software)(Brief Article)

With many available voice recognition software programs being extremely easy to use, "talking" to your computer can be a great benefit for anyone who wants (or needs) to free up their hands while composing documents or for individuals who never learned to type.

Although it is probably more common to use voice recognition software for typing, you can use speech technology to do anything you can with a keyboard and mouse, like entering data into a spreadsheet and surfing the web.

Many voice recognition software programs claim that users can "type" up to 160 words a minute once the user fully understands the software and has "trained it" to recognize their ...

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