&gt; Is there something particular about Vietnamese that makes it easier than other languages for dictations?<p>phonemic orthographies (These languages should work better) - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Phonemic_orthography" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Phonemic_orthography</a><p>English is <i></i><i>highly non-phonemic</i><i></i> the only language I would think is worst is French&#x2F;Greek with silent letters and the different accents and in Modern Greek  &#x2F;i&#x2F; can be written in six different ways: ι, η, υ, ει, οι and υι. My Italian and most Eastern European languages would be easier European languages for voice translation.<p>This seriously reminds me of my days in college and grad school learning&#x2F;teaching dead languages. The dead languages (Latin, ancient Hebrew, Classical&#x2F;Koine Greek  and Aramaic) we really don&#x27;t know how they were pronounced so we just made them phonetic, which tells you that we don&#x27;t speak them correctly since no language is 100%.<p>Vietnamese is interesting because there are several dialects that would trip this up but doesn&#x27;t appear to. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vietnamese_language" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vietnamese_language</a>