The architectural firm that I used to work for purchased some digital voice recorders and some speech recognition software in hopes that verbal notes taken on job sites would be able to be transcribed into digital format without the assistance of a secretary. The only problem was that nearly everyone in the firm was born and raised in North Carolina, so their southern drawls garbled up the speech recognition software. And since I wasn't from NC and had a nice, even tone of speech, I was the only one who could master the slow and deliberate tone that the SRS could use. Granted, I didn't wan't to trek around on jobsites as the boss's personal orator, so he just went back to the secretary method.