John Smith wrote:
Jim:

It is only necessary to create the association between any spoken word and
the series of characters you wish to generate when that word is spoken,
into a library of such associations...

In other words, if I speak "the" and make the association to the
characters "t-h-e" the speech to text engine will always generate those
characters when I speak that specific word--I could just as easily
associate the spoken "the" with any other series of characters.

Now, while you and I might not go to that trouble if we are fast typists,
others who do not type will... those who are blind will... companies and
corps will (and especially those employing disabled workers.) I have seen
such libraries on the net for specific uses, such as programming, before.
You most likely can download one for the speech engine in question...

There are groups devoted to the blind who could easily supply you with
them, I am sure...

John

Too many words in the English language that are pronounced the same but
spelled differently for speech-to-text to work very well.

Know-no, new-knew, see-sea, I-eye, nose-knows, sail-sale, to-two-too-tu
tu, seem-seam, Sue-sue (name vs litigation), cheep-cheap, but-butt,
ect., ect., ect.

A speech-to-text probgram would have to be able to put the words into
context. Probably doable to some level.