Microsoft Windows has audio to text built right in
Windows 7 has that? How do I access that?
It is not very good, while Dragon speech is overpriced speech to text software that is perhaps purposely under developed, with even upgrades costing a lot.
So I went looking for free software, and so far I have found https://www.speechtexter.com to be quite good. I am using a $10.00 ZELIER USB Computer Microphone, with Volume Control,Mute Button&LED Indicator,PC Condenser Mic, which is not the best but none of the analog mics I have had were satisfactory either, but this one is easy to use (except that it turns itself back on when the PC comes out of sleep). Below is my brief test in which Speech Texter typed what I said. It made some mistakes like "softwareoh" and in the 4th sentence but if I had spoken clearer and slower than it would have done better:
Hi, I am testing the speech texture application on the Chrome browser. I can see that it does not recognize its own name, which is speechtexter, except that is two words. In any case, the voice recognition on this application is far far better than Windows 10 own speech-to-text softwareoh, and it is better than Dragon software which I have used in the past, at least up to version 11. However this application is free. I am using a USB microphone and I will give you the name later. While you were speaking, you can see what understand you were saying to a visible pop up above the text box. You do need to add punctuation, and I probably have missed some here. This is about all I'm going to say for now, but maybe everything that we say and do give glory to God, thanks be to him.