Voice Recognition for a Techie?

kaybee asks: "I am a long-time developer, sysadmin, and general computer junkie (for fun and for work) who needs to seriously curb the usage of his hands. I'm curious as to the current voice recognition options, preferably usable on Linux and Windows. I prefer the command-line to a GUI, I prefer Vim to anything else, and I still read my email with Pine. I'd like to hear options for sending email via voice, which I hope is easy, and I'd love to hear of any solutions that allow effective coding via voice, which seems much more difficult."

Comments

Interesting, but ..

[Anonymous Coward]

This reminds me of when I was in the local cinema the other day, and I asked for a glass of tap water. In the UK, it is illegal for a restaurant, café or bar to (a) refuse to serve you water from the tap and (b) charge for it. The guy serving me was this little chink bastard who kept trotting off the line "it's against store policy" like he'd never heard of good customer service.

Eventually his manager came to see what was going on. She apologised for his behaviour and gave me the tap water I'd requested, for which I thanked her. He then got taken out the back, presumably for a good arse-kicking for his unhelpful attitude.