Its pretty impressive.  I haven&#x27;t touched much upon trying such things for quite a few years when I last had a quick play with Dragon Naturally Speaking.<p>It&#x27;s getting PRETTY close, with a basic cheap laptop microphone, my Australian accent, and no training.<p>But I did say pretty close.  Not exactly right.  And I&#x27;m only speaking a few sentences.<p>I read out a passage aloud, and apart from not quite getting everything right (but getting some remarkably difficult words&#x2F;names correct), the thing that struck me is how written word, and the art form of such, is in fact quite different from a verbal stream of spoken words.  The little sigils and breaking up of a written text conveys a whole bunch of meaning and subtlety that a word for word stream doesn&#x27;t quite get.<p>For me, its just inaccurate enough to still be irritating.  Everything&#x27;s working fine, and then I hit a mis-dictated word, have to do a bit of a double take and ask myself &quot;What the...what on earth does it think i&#x27;m trying to say here...oh...i said THAT!&quot; which breaks the flow of anything but the most basic and primitive sentence.<p>But then that makes me wonder, you know what... how many humans can actually follow everything I&#x27;m actually saying?  It&#x27;s not like I can peer into their heads and verify the transcription of voice-to-words inscribed on their brains.