I Speak, therefore I am by Hatim Kantawalla
Throw away the keyboards, the mouse and all the other input devices…did anybody say voice recognition has finally come of age!

The idea that you could speak to your computer never really caught on. Probably because voice recognition demanded high system requirements, long hours spent on training and the fact that the resultant effort did not actually translate into great accuracy.

But the latest versions and updates to the popular brands of voice recognition software claim to fulfill the fantasy of relaxing in an easy chair, dictating into a microphone and reeling off voice commands to the computer. You can actually surf the Web, send e-mail and perform a host of other mundane tasks such as saving files, copying and deleting stuff all through simple voice commands.

More importantly, voice and continuous speech recognition is playing a major part in helping people with disabilities and also in the field of medical transcripts.
The old problems of higher system requirements still remain, but with higher accuracy and added features for surfing the Net, there's no real reason why voice recognition software will not become common place.