Windows speech recognition is a free alternative speech-to-text software that we recommend for people who do not have Dragon available on their personal computers. However, you can set Speech Recognition to run at start up by right clicking the speech recognition window -> Options -> Run at startup, as shown below: To access Speech Recognition, go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Ease of Access -> Windows Speech Recognition. Speech Recognition is the speech-to-text software that comes pre-installed on all Windows machines running Windows Vista and later. These can be good alternatives to Kurzweil or Dragon, and give students basic (and free!) starter resources that they can access at home.īelow are some of the programs we have looked at for both Mac OS and Windows.
Both Mac and Windows operating systems come pre-packaged with a number of accessibility programs such as voice dictation.
