Good voice recognition program needed.

I am loosing the use of my fingers and typing has been reduced to the use of the ole two finger trick. I do realize that some of you only know this way of typing but when you learn to type using all 20 fingers and 18 quit it is a challenge.
A friend uses a PC and swears by MS Word 2011 and using that voice recognition. He demonstrated how accurate the transcription is.
I purchased Office 2011 for Mac figuring it would have this same tool. I can't find it.
Any one been able to use Word 2011 for Mac? In the Mac Preferences in Dictation & Speech, when I turn Dictation "On", a dropdown window says "When you dictate text, what you say is sent to Apple to be converted to text. To help your Mac recognize what you're saying, other information is sent as well, such as your contacts."
What is this about? Is this a dictation setting or a voice recorder? Contacts?
Does this mean that Word 2011 for Mac doesn't have a voice recognition like the PC version? Or does it?
Any one help me with this?
Andy

Hi Andy - Unfortunately, there is no speech recognition for Microsoft Word. Like Rudegar mentions above, the best dictation software out there for the Mac is DragonDictate.
http://www.nuance.com/for-individuals/by-product/dragon-for-mac/dragon-dictate/i ndex.htm.
I use it all the time, in fact I am using it right now. It's a fairly expensive program but not only does it dictate your typing, but you can also have it open up programs and pretty much do anything you want by speaking into your microphone.
Not because you have a Mac, there is also the ability like you mentioned to use Apple's dictation software. Once you have turned on dictation like it looks like you have, by double tapping the command button on your keyboard a little microphone will pop up and you can start dictating. Then when you're done dictating you can hit the command key again to have it stop and type in the text your dictated.
Unlike DragonDictate, the Apple method is free but there are some limitations. First, there is a limitation to how much you can say before you have to have it type out the words. You also do not see the words as you're speaking them until you hit the command key to end your dictation.
But for the price of free, it is a very handy method to type. I would give that a try first, and then go to DragonDictate if you want to have more features.
Me know if I can help with anything else!

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