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Uncle Robin · 07-07-2021, 08:40 AM

I can empathize with the OP when it comes to the availability of high-quality alternatives to specialized commercial software available in Windows. I recently upgraded the RAM on my PC and decided to test out a few Linux distros in VMs. It's been nearly 10 years since I was active in Linux and an hour or two was all it took to remind me why. 10 years ago I was beginning to need high-quality speech recognition software more and more often, and there was nothing in the Linux world that came within a parsec of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Ten years on, Dragon has got better and better while my need for it has grown greater and greater, and there still isn't any viable Linux alternative. So I can definitely understand how the OP feels when one would like to try Linux but it simply does not have the software one needs. FWIW this entire post is courtesy of Dragon.

07-07-2021, 08:40 AM	#21
Uncle Robin Diligent dilettante Posts: 3,662 Karma: 52758936 Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: in my mind Device: Kobo Sage; Kobo Libra Colour	I can empathize with the OP when it comes to the availability of high-quality alternatives to specialized commercial software available in Windows. I recently upgraded the RAM on my PC and decided to test out a few Linux distros in VMs. It's been nearly 10 years since I was active in Linux and an hour or two was all it took to remind me why. 10 years ago I was beginning to need high-quality speech recognition software more and more often, and there was nothing in the Linux world that came within a parsec of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Ten years on, Dragon has got better and better while my need for it has grown greater and greater, and there still isn't any viable Linux alternative. So I can definitely understand how the OP feels when one would like to try Linux but it simply does not have the software one needs. FWIW this entire post is courtesy of Dragon.