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the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
For writing text in, emacs is your friend.

wrt voice-recognition software; what I have seen of it is not yet good enough at unambigously making sense of words that it would be productive rather than just frustrating to  use.  Also, if you do want to play around with them, it makes a huge difference to get one that's been trained on accents fairly similar to your own; certainly, I've seen European-based voice recognition software fail drastically on some US accents, and heard of the same happening the other way around.

Moritz:
I mumble too much for voice recognicion.

As I speak (and write in) two languages and mix them up a lot, my friend is an offline electronic dictionary (Langenscheidts Handwörterbuch Englisch-Deutsch Version 2.1 is the particular program).

Spectacular Sameth:
I can't see voice recognizing software being useful for fantasy or Sci-fi writers. I can just see Patrick Rothfuss using it and getting pissed every time it wrote "Quote" instead of "Kvothe."

Adam:
Open Office does everything I need.

Quantus:
I played with Naturally Speaking for this very reason, and despite being a very good voice recognistion software, it just didn't gain anything for my writing.  The training of the thing wasn't that bad, i was up and running in 5-10 minutes.  But the problem was that I had to retrain it practically from scratch every time I booted the thing up.  turns out my speaking voice just isnt monotone enough for it. 

The other problem with the voice software is that it is hopeless for punctuation.  So you end up either having to go back through and figure out where teh sentences end, or else enunciate every punctuation mark you want to use, which breaks my writing rhythm even more than typing would.

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