The purpose of this paper is to provide a comparative overview of current speech recognition products. These products can benefit everyone, including persons with disabilities, but they have differences in their accuracy, user interfaces and usability. For anyone interested in speech recognition, it is important to understand these differences, and how they may impact one's success at using the products.
Speech recognition is a technology that is constantly evolving.
It is a technology that is experiencing tremendous growth in the commercial market, apart from its original niche as an assistive technology product. Stiff competition between these companies and more demand from consumer and business markets, has led to a tremendous drop in prices over the last few years. Competition has also fueled the development of a plethora of new products. Each company has several products available, ranging in price, features, and the applications that they support. This paper seeks to make sense of the overwhelming array of products so that persons who are shopping for speech recognition will have a better understanding of their choices.