You can even navigate through the Internet with this software. Clearly, this feature has a lot of potential. There are several different packages on the market. Some of the most popular programs are made by IBM and Lernout and Hauspie. Those who are familiar with the software by Dragon Systems may know it is now a part of Lernout and Hauspie.
Any software package comes with a headset microphone.
But given the work flow in your office, running over to a PC and slipping on a headset may not be ideal. One alternative is the digital recorder. By speaking into this recorder the same way you spoke into your portable cassette recorders in the past, you then can transfer your voice to the PC later. Aside from what the minimum requirements may say on the outside of their packaging, voice recognition applications are hungry for both processor power and hard-drive space. For example, ViaVoice, IBM's voice recognition product, when completely installed, uses more than 500 megabytes of space.