With the advent of continuous speech technology, the speech recognition industry is marketing their products to the general population. Reduced prices and availability have made it more available to others with learning or writing difficulties. So speech recognition technology is used by a great variety of people. Some professionals use it like they might have used a dictaphone in an another time. Lawyers find it useful and are as a group very adept at it because they have been trained to make organized oral presentations.
Researchers use it to record field notes or observations.
Learning speech recognition technology occurs at three levels. Mastering the software is one part. A second need is learning how to talk so that the software understands you. But the larger piece of learning is converting your speaking style to writing style. Students will initially speak in an informal, conversational style.