With my suddenly arthritic hands, it’s very difficult to touch-type, and before long, it becomes painful. An app i could use in Microsoft Word (copy/pasting from something Google would work too) would be a huge help for my work, documenting psychotherapy therapy sessions. Any suggestions before I attempt to invent the wheel here?
I have used Dragon medical and professional since 2000.The newer versions are fantastic. This is how I do all my patient notes for the last 34 years. I can give you a site to go to and they can help set you up. There are different versions for different specialties. I have actually set up doctors for this and a pseudo expert. It will change your life. If you use a template it can be incorporated to use this or they can help create the templates also.
Pm me if you want to do a deeper dive.
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I second Dragon.
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MS Word’s own digital dictation is amazingly good.
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This is probably the latest and greatest version, right?
Dragon Naturally Speaking was pretty decent with bio and med terminology but sort of missed a few words when it came to chemical names. 
Yes, the Office 365 version. I used to use Dragon, but I was stunned at the accuracy of Word. It was nearly flawless.
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You can add words and there are tricks to getting it better. The advantage of the professional versions of dragon is the extra things you can do with it that Google or MS can’t do in it’s current form.
Nuance, the producer of Dragon, is owned by Microsoft.
Yes I know. I have been involved in this when IBM via voice gold was out. I actually worked with the nuance team to help solve an issue that effected over 100 electronic medical records systems including the VAs… I am also on speech forums… And lectured for like 5 years about getting doctors to use this technology. I know most of the major players. No way I could practice without it. My typing sucks… 
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Wow…that’s a name I haven’t thought of in decades! I think I picked up a copy in the software section of Sam’s back in the 1990s.
I remember spending hours “training” Via Voice and then Dragon, reading passages etc. I do have friends and family who were doctors, and I tried to get them to use Dragon, but they weren’t too happy with the error rate. I think I bought my last copy of Dragon in 2015 or so.
I started using digital dictation on MS Word about 3 years ago, and, as mentioned, it was amazing. I didn’t have to “train” it, and it seemed to me to be nearly flawless.
That being said, I was using it for legal dictation and some personal stuff, so the medical/scientific aspects might not be as good.
1998 to be precise… For Gold… Lol…
The professional versions you can add and adjust vocabularies. You can scan notes to add words also. Lots of tricks also for better accuracy.
The newer versions you read for like 1 minute and your good so really no training anymore. I haven’t tried 360 but they probably are using the nuance technology… They bought it for a reason… Lol. My google pixel phone is amazing also.
With via voice it was so slow… And yes the earlier versions of dragon were pretty bad but it’s pretty amazing now.
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