How much does it cost to buy a great voice activated program...
Posted By: MTing on 2009-06-25
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Does anyone know how much an accurate voice activated program costs? If so, does it take a long time to train it to your voice? Will you still need to make a lot of corrections due to misinterpreted words? Is it worth buying compared to typing it out?
Thank you for any and all advice. : )
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