Most speech to text conversion software has to initially bind the word it thinks it hears to a word in the dictionary. And it could be the wrong word - therefore you will never find the word you are looking for (also you would have to re-index if you are even able to change the word to the correct word)... This Fast Talk technology does not do that, all it tries to do is match the phonemes it hears initially to the phonemes from the query screen and as long as the words sound similar, it will find it. Also dictionaries that the speech to text software's use are not good with proper names, acronyms, and slang words, etc.
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Most speech to text conversion software has to initially bind the word it thinks it hears to a word in the dictionary. And it could be the wrong word - therefore you will never find the word you are looking for (also you would have to re-index if you are even able to change the word to the correct word)... This Fast Talk technology does not do that, all it tries to do is match the phonemes it hears initially to the phonemes from the query screen and as long as the words sound similar, it will find it. Also dictionaries that the speech to text software's use are not good with proper names, acronyms, and slang words, etc.