My Sony laptop has Vista Ultimate and the speech recognition is extremely good. It requires no training so you can start usig it right from the word go. I would recommend a bluetooth capable laptop with a bluetooth microphone so your voice can be picked up even if you aren’t directly facing the laptop built-in microphone.
You can dictate reports and letters with it? is it very different from Dragon?
“You can dictate reports and letters with it? is it very different from Dragon?”
Yes. I’ve dictated manuscripts with it. I’m not sure which engine it uses, but it is probably Dragon. It doesn’t know some technical words, but you spell the words out. No problem. If you can’t spell, just take a good guess and then run spellcheck. You may have to manually fix it if it is a very unique word like retinopathy or keratomileusis or something like that.
Spekaing of medical terms, I would google medical dictation software and see what comes up. Virtually all medical records are now dictated online with speech recognition software whicha re very accurate.