Any free or shareware Speech To Text (Speech Regognition) Software?

All VR software requires "teaching", Supe. You can check "Dragonspeak"....don't know if it has a trial period or if it requires a certain sound card/microphone setup.

http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/ 

It has no trial. I searched two .. E speaking and tazti.

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Relax...didn't mention "Medical Suite"....

Hard to relax....it's a conditioned response, since the word combination "speech recognition" is the reason I'm losing my house and my car.  The Buddhists tell us to shun attachments, so, I suppose this is good in the long run.

What I read here is: "I got a shipload of notes to get from a handful of books... however, I'm a one-finger typist and the course for which I require them will have ceased to exist by the time I'm done."

Here ya go, superman... try here   There are a few free VR apps to choose from there, so hopefully you will find what you need.

Best of luck with it.

Yup, another case of redundancy in the long list of jobs lost to automation, computerisation, robotification.  Back in the mid-70's I was a 1st Class Machinist making plumbers supplies... until the company I worked for completed its migration offshore to S Korea, where it could take advantage of full automation and a significantly reduced workforce (8 men.. 3 in admin) who worked for considerably less.  783 workers were made redundant the day our factory closed its doors.

In those days, however, I could walk from one job right into another... unfortunately, and largely due to the reasons highlighted above, it's not so easy these days.  Therefore, Karen, I sincerely hope that you are able to fend off losing your home and car by finding worthwhile and rewarding employment.

That's highly doubtful in this area of the country, where 45% of the mortgages are in trouble, and unemployment is rampant.  I know how this ends....I've watched the Terminator movies.  The machines rise up -- first they take our jobs, then they're going to wipe us ALL out!  When the last hospital is in the jaws of the T1000, I'm going to be standing next to that hospital's administrator, mocking him...."How do you like your cost savings NOW! Mwah-ha-ha!"

But seriously -- this is the universe just helping me get out of this state and passing me on to some place where I have kin and other resources.  Florida weather is nice, but it really sucks during hurricane season, and I don't have any relatives here to rely on when the power goes out for weeks, and my husband has been out of work now since 2007.  It's sad that the career I'm isn't as lucrative of a business as it used to be and I could be making about the same amount of money right now if I got a job stocking shelves at Wal-Mart, and eventually I may have to do just that -- at least now I'm "used" to making less, and I'm grateful that I'm healthy, and have a happy marriage, because if you have those last 2 things, you're always rich on the inside.

Hehe, maybe you could smother that hospital administrator in a bit of CastrolGTX... you know, to make him more appetising to the T-100.

Seriously, though, it always saddens me when the upper echelon (on huge salaries and bonuses) can continue to live in the lap of luxury while workers (the backbone of any business/industry) are forced out of their homes because of downsizing/economising to maximise profits.

Still, I do hope that you are able to secure a better life for you and yours.  All the best with it, Karen, stay well and positive, most of all happy.

Actually my notes would hardly be able to load the toy ship you got on your last birthday. I use 3-4 fingers for typing. No course would still be there with me a semester lagging behind. Horrible Imagination.

 

What version of Windows are you running?

Windows Vista and 7 has speech recognition software built in.