Dictation and Voice Recognition Microphones for PCs

Nuance Dragon Professional is leader for more than 20 years. Installed in Windows and Mac.

Knowbrainer - very well regarded Advanced add-ons to Dragon for disabled power users. Says it solves Dragon's issue of needing to use dictation box in many places.

As a native English speaker with a clear enunciated voice, the cloud-based voice recognition models work very very well for me. In Windows 10 I pay $8/mo for Voicetyper. Biggest Advantage I can type in any space by simply starting to talk, like I used to be able to do with Dragon in Windows 10. works best to use a keyboard key to start the microphone listening and stop.

These are my favorite high-performance but budget-friendly microphones I've used over 20 years as a quad. I've also used some very expensive microphones but rarely noticed any significant improvement over these. - Mark Felling