Yes windows does have speech recognition and it works pretty good. Not perfect for sure, but good. It has problems with normal speech, but if you go slow and your diction is good, you can get by. If it makes a mistake just say delete that. Of course you need to know what words mean. It doesn't know where to put the word "quote" or the sign ",". Perhaps I just haven't found how to do it. It doesn't know where to put punctuation, you have to tell it. If it gets something wrong, just say delete that, and it backs up. Don't cough or sneeze or clear your throat, because it attempts to interpret everything you say. It is now having trouble understanding the word "hears". I think there is a way to teach it, but I think I will need more training.
It doesn't understand, when you say, new paragraph, if you want to type new paragraph or start a new paragraph. You have to say, "new" and "paragraph" separately or else it starts a new paragraph.
If you don't know how to touch type, it might be faster than packing out what you'll want to say.
Learning is fun.
Comments, compliments, criticisms and questions always welcome. It did this line without much trouble.