Can anyone recommend a voice to text programme for laptop?

[Wonderingwhyme]

Trying to get a small laptop for ds for school and he really needs voice to text otherwise he is going to fail miserably as school have not much proof of his intelligence and could pass his GCSEs but at this rate he won’t.

Can any one recommend one they use? Senco suggested dragon? How do these work? Do all laptops have a microphone??

Bumping

Any one??

Dragon. Don't use it ourselves but have been told its the one to get and looking at it now.

DSA for me for university provided Dragon which actually I'm really impressed with. Can use it with an onboard mic but it's much more accurate with a USB headset one.

It's possibly worth trying the inbuilt Windows function first though to see if he gets on with it
www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-turn-on-speech-recognition-and-dictation-in-windows-10/#:~:text=To%20activate%20speech%2Dto%2Dtext,can%20see%20in%20Figure%20C

I say that because I looked into it for DD2 (bright but very poor writing skills because of dyspraxia) and she can't quite cope with working that way yet.

My son had a scribe as dragon pretty shite in all honesty. In daily life he uses Apple products as much more reliable. The main issue with dragon is it writes a load of nonsense as voice recognition pretty hopeless and if your D.C. has severe dyslexia they probably don’t even know what’s been written!!