This came with an Office update today, and it is pretty cool. I can finally type faster than my wife. 
Except it is not so much typing as talking.
I've only had a brief play with it, and it is doing a remarkable job of understanding my southern English accent. It will obviously have no chance with Dave's Geordie accent, or Terri's Norfolk twang. Ged's computer would catch fire trying to keep up him, so it would, and Jane's computer would fall asleep listening to her silky smooth Washington tones (if they even do Office for Macs).
The text lags my spoken word to the extent that I have to stop and let it catch up, and you have to manually delete typos and try again. It responds to Full Stop and Comma but I have not manage to make it respond to any other punctuation. Hey, it does New Paragraph as well. Actually it initially types it and then works it out and responds accordingly.
Right, how long till Jive can do this?
BTW This update is being put out over several days. I had to sign up for the Office Insider program to get it today, so I'll now be plagued with incessant blooming emails.
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For people that don't have Office 365 there's this free addon
Dictate-Speech Recognition for Microsoft Office
My Office 2010 now has Dictation 
Me talk with a country bumpkin accent? I'll have you know I went to the very best Swiss Finishing school -it was approved 
Anyone who can't see this feature might like to know it is subject to a slow roll out by Microsoft
Dictate with your voice in Office - Office Support
I think those part of the Office Insider program are getting it first
terris86415680 wrote
Me talk with a country bumpkin accent? I'll have you know I went to the very best Swiss Finishing school -it was approved
I'd think of you as a scary St Trinians kind of a girl.
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