I think putting the stuff in a database would be a bad idea.
Although once you have all your mail in a database it is a simple step to write a script to write it back to plain text again. Or even to any other format you want.
Programming languages are not designed for input by speech. They often have "words" that sound very similar, and there also have irregular white space - do you want a space after the word you just spoke or not? While speech recognition will one day work effectively for inputting spoken languages, I doubt it will ever be particularly useful for programming languages that are not designed to be spoken.
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I think putting the stuff in a database would be a bad idea.
Although once you have all your mail in a database it is a simple step to write a script to write it back to plain text again. Or even to any other format you want.
Programming languages are not designed for input by speech. They often have "words" that sound very similar, and there also have irregular white space - do you want a space after the word you just spoke or not? While speech recognition will one day work effectively for inputting spoken languages, I doubt it will ever be particularly useful for programming languages that are not designed to be spoken.