Revisiting Windows Speech Recognition: Underrated and under-marketed.
For Assistive/Adoptive Technology and Rehabilitative professionals, Dragon Naturally Speaking from Nuance has become the go-to software for people with fine-motor challenges. It's almost a knee-jerk reaction to recommend Dragon to people that have trouble manipulating Mouse and Keyboard. It maybe arguably true that as far as accuracy goes, few can out-perform Dragon Naturally Speaking, it may also be true, that, as far as Adoptive Software goes, Dragon is as affordable as it gets. ($49 for Home Edition and $20+- on Ebay or Amazon if one wants to find an unused older version), perhaps it is that affordability that makes it a knee jerk reaction to recommend Dragon and not bothered to look at the alternative options, even when it is freely available . From the Microsoft's Point of view, it is not making money from the Accessibility features that comes standard with every Windows 7/8 Computers, so why bother spend cash marketing what's essentially, a freebie. The result