My career in Software would be over if it wasn't for voicecode.io and now Talon.
I go through periods where typing does not bother me at all and long periods of intense random pain in forearms, wrists, palms and top of my hands.
Certain aspects of controlling your computer by voice are way more efficient than using a keyboard, others not so much. Lucky for me using a mouse does not bother me that much so I continue to use that for scrolling and mousing and alternate clicking by voice or mouse. I probably work by voice about a 1/3 of the time right now, ideally it would be more like 2/3 of the time.
There is definitely a big learning curve to using voice control and like they said in the article you have to be careful about voice strain.
- http://voicecode.io/ (now defunct)
- light years ahead of where voicecode.io was with speed and accuracy
- free
- can be used without Dragon (although accuracy with Dragon is much better)
- currently only works on Mac OSX, but has plans for Linux and Windows support