Yes, I use DNS (version 7, Essentials) and think that it's excellent. Most people who I've heard dismissing it seem to do so because it's not 100% accurate. This seems to me to be a preposterous attitude - the fact that you can buy this software, for a fairly modest price, and that, with a bit of an effort, it works 99% of the time is amazing!!
The only problem that I have with mine is that the "correct that" feature only seems to work either very slowly or sometimes doesn't work at all (I've tried re-installing the package but still get the same result) - anybody had a similar experience? Perhaps I need a higher spec computer - although a 2.17GHz processor and 1000MB of RAM should be more than enough(?)

I believe that the most expensive 'Preferred Edition' comes with a digital voice recorder so that you can dictate notes, away from your computer, and then later plug the recorder into your machine and turn your verbal notes into text. As I had an Olympus voice recorder I thought that I would see if it would work with my 'Essentials' edition. I bought a short length of cable with a jack plug on each end. I then set up a new voice file on DNS and plugged the recorder into the line-in (microphone) socket on the sound card - it seems to work pretty well - I'm still experimenting.

I've heard that the latest edition of Microsoft Office has voice recognition included as standard - does anyone know anything about this?