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Technology experts:
I use a voice to text program (Dragon) at work. We have an older, purchased version, the vendor (Nuance) now only rents software. The function was always a little buggy, but with recent updates it has become much worse. It appears they are sabotaging the purchased version in order to drive sales for software rental. I would like to buy something from a different company if possible.
For any of you who use voice to text programs, what do you use and what do you like about it?

Google Read & Write is free, and it can easily be added to Chrome as an extension. I'm not sure that I would be paying for that sort of thing anymore. There are plenty of free options out there.

The problem is that Dragon has the specialty market on lockdown, or at least didnthe last time I looked. They have the best special words databases, and their training feature is (was?) Head, shoulders and a chunk of torso better.

It sucks that they are scheming to force people into a SaaS model. Can you rollback the updates and block new updates to buy some bridge time?