DragonDictate

An early discrete speech recognition system developed by Dragon Systems that allowed users to control computers and dictate text by speaking one word at a time with brief pauses between words. Released in the early 1990s, DragonDictate was one of the first commercially viable speech recognition products for personal computers and was widely used as an assistive technology for people with motor impairments who could not type. The system required initial voice training and used word prediction to improve accuracy. DragonDictate evolved into Dragon NaturallySpeaking, which introduced continuous speech recognition, and the Dragon product line continues today as a leading dictation and voice control solution.