I know it's proprietary, and their privacy policy is sketchy as heck, but I just tried out Aqua Voice and it's genuinely the best experience I've had with a voice recognition/voice to text system ever.
I had to change careers because of dragon, lol, and auto closed captioning. I used to be a transcriptionist. It is a skilled profession that requires an ear for dialects, cultural context, and of course very fast typing and word processing skills. Attorneys would tape their depositions, and I'd have them ready by the next morning. I got the kids ready for school and slept through the day. Went to get them from school, and when they went to bed, started on that night's tapes. Now I have not one but three transcription machines gathering dust (one for standard cassettes, one for micro cassettes, and one for digital audio files). And nobody will pay enough now to make it worthwhile. It's considered unskilled labor to tidy it up.
I sometimes mention I worked for an early AI company. The company was actually a company that was doing medical coding, the sort of career cousin of transcriptionist.
On the other hand, if you're still a skilled transcriptionist, as I understand it, you'll achieve incredibly speed with your steno machine that even the best touch typists can't....
I mostly did touch-typing, and I can still type 80 or 90 words a minute. I used to have issues with Microsoft Word's buffering. If you're a good touch typist you have a lot of muscle memory. So I'd be typing along and just knew I had made a typo. But I had to wait for Word to catch up with me displaying the words on the screen before I could be sure and fix it, lol. Fun times.
I've considered learning steno over the years, since unlike learning, eg Dvorak (which I tried) or Colemak, steno offered literal double or triple speed efficiencies.
On the other hand, it meant using specialized equipment and learning a whole new way of typing.
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