I'm after some good voice recognition software that can do the following:

Recognise simple words and write them down.

Time stamp each word.

It has to be pretty quick too as words may come fast, ~2-3 per second.

Does such software exist?

Vista has pretty impressive voice recognition built in. It does everything you mentioned (though I'm not sure about the timestamps), but I assume you use XP.

DragonDictate Naturally Speaking.

http://www.voicerecognition.com.au/

Last time I checked they didn't have a demo.

I used it years ago and it was OK, but not suitable for transcription. Depending on what sort of words it might be suitable.

The words will be simple, monosyllabic words, eg "HIT; MISS"

Like I said, the problem is the words might come in close succession, and need to be individually timestamped:(

mm, not sure about the timestamping. I don't think succession would matter though.

i have been using naturally speaking 9.1 and it's pretty damn good after you train it. i don't know about the timestamping thingo though.

VoiceXML may be the technology you're after.

some dev tools there

Hey Obes, that stuff doesn't look very PC-noob friendly... I'm after stuff that I can just installed/plug in and have work. Otherwise, I'd have to pay someone to program what I want.

I've wasted a pretty penny purchasing software that claimed to be for this, and clearly so have a lot of big companies trying to save on their call centre costs. It has all been a big failure.

Oh god I hate the Telstra phone robot lady.

Oh god I hate the Telstra phone robot lady.

she is very busy.....same voice on every robot system.....imagine all that time recording the different msgs......how boring...

What I linked isn't overly useful for what you need. But that is the phrase you are after, that or Automatic Speech Recognition Logging.

guy at work is doing stuff on voice recognition/automated response
kinda funny hearing it say
'object reference not set to an instance of a variable'

Otherwise, I'd have to pay someone to program what I want

dudes - Idol made a point here.

I've looked high and low to find voice recog software to accompany our security cam software (for subtitling) and no such thing exists yet.

many claim to, but you have to check out demos from random sources to see that they all need to be 'trained' for each user, and even then the user must speak at a speed, tone, and consistancy that the software can understand.

eventually it'll get better, but that's along way off

how about giving a little less vague explanation on what the hell you want done

how about giving a little less vague explanation on what the hell you want done

I explained EXACTLY what I need the software to do.

we use dragondictate at work and tend not to have many complaints about it.

in saying that i logged a test call saying "oh noes dragawns are attack teh servis send ninjas" and the server guys called up thinking that dragondictate was f***ing s*** up