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Hallo, Does anyone have experience of this technology i.e. you speak into a microphone connected to or located within your computer and the software converts your speech into text.
I know a lot of legal firms have invested in this to try to save on word processing costs.
If you have used it, what did you use it for and what did you think of it?

In 2004 I contributed to a thread which discussed some different ways of spelling or transcribing the above name (and others),
I came across this baptism from Great Dunmow
Essex RO ref: D/P 11/1/3 fiche 1 of 2
12 Feb 1716 SAYWELL (or SEWEL) Abraham s of Abraham and Elizabeth his wife of Chelmsford parish born 30th Jan

I have transcribed the entry exactly as it reads. I haven't seen that version before

Record offices are understandably protective of the original parish registers lodged with them.
Since the originals were microfilmed or microfiched family historians have been generally dependent on the film versions for their research - though sometimes archivists allow a look at the originals when there has been no alternative.
But anyone who has ever been to a Record Office knows that the defects in the originals (damage by damp, vermin, fire or sheer stupidity) which occurred in the custody of the churches is less amenable to inspection by microfilm than examination of the original, especially where the text is old-fashioned - but we have to live with that.
But in some Record Offices (e.g. Essex and Suffolk) we have the assistance given by the many transcripts (mostly hand-written) prepared from the originals in many cases a long time ago before the registers were filmed. The transcripts themselves are on film.
Do all other Record Offices have the benefit of these transcripts?

RBRingwood, I hope this helps