Speech Recognition comes built into Vista

I am using Windows Vista Speech Recognition to dictate this blog post in Windows Live Writer .  I think it will give Dragon Naturally Speaking a run for its money, since it comes built into Vista and does not require you to buy any additional software.  You still will need a good USB microphone.  The Speech Recognition takes only 30 minutes for the basic setup.  I still need to spend some time training my voice.   I believe that we will hear about more law firms beginning to dictate this way.

Besides Dictation, you can also use it to control windows.  When I say start calculator (had to type that) it actually opens the calculator.   If I say print, it prints the document and if say close, it will close it. 

Click here to view a Microsoft Demo

 On a side note I don't believe that this feature will work with WordPerfect.