# Anyone have experience w/ Dragon Voice Recognition? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 24, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-experience-w-dragon-voice-recognition/551236 "2010-08-24T01:58:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-experience-w-dragon-voice-recognition/551236/21 "2010-08-26T07:15:57Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > > [@JoelUpchurch](#): > > > > What results do people get with the factory microphone? My results haven’t been too great and I wonder if I should get a better microphone or perhaps a USB microphone in case the problem is the sound circuitry build into my PC. > > Buying the microphone I recommended up thread improved the accuracy by at least 10%, and that’s over the other two I bought, which themselves were appreciably better than the one that came with it. \*\*A lot \*\*of how well it does has to do with the quality of the microphone. I went over to Radio Shack and bought the microphone that elfkin477 recommended. Thanks for the help guys. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-experience-w-dragon-voice-recognition/551236/22 "2010-08-26T18:13:38Z")
I haven’t used it in quite some time, but I think its usefulness depends on your typing speed and ability. I got results in the 90-95% range. Sounds good, right? But what that means is that I have to manually fix one in every 10-20 words. If I have to re-read the whole document and edit every other line, it’s a whole lot faster and more efficient just to type it. Those results, by the way, were for regular text. When I started in on technical stuff, recognition went down the toilet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-experience-w-dragon-voice-recognition/551236.md?page=1)