Any experience with speech recognition software to type lots of text

hallo Folks,
Anybody out there any experience on the Mac and speech recognition software?
What I need it for is to write text, no need to be able to tell the machine what to do over voice. Just want cut down on the grinding hours of typing. What works well and what not?
Love to hear.

Roger Wilmut1 wrote:
There is a useful review here including a sample of the uncorrected results of dictation.
Thanks for that Roger, useful.
You won't find an open-source or free version of something as complex as dictation.
OK.

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