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Voice recognition software

Technology category · O*NET

Voice recognition software is a technology category in the O*NET database. Across U.S. occupations, 19 report using software or tools in this category. The named products below are the specific examples O*NET records for those jobs. The occupations that use it sit, on average, at the 83rd percentile of AI task-exposure ( high) — how much that work overlaps with what AI can do, not a sign the tool is being replaced. See where every tool category sits.

A Hot tag marks technologies O*NET sees frequently in employer job postings; In demand marks tools an occupation specifically requires.

Example software & tools

Ranked by how many occupations list each product. Each number is an occupation count — a job is counted once per product — so the product rows overlap and do not sum to the category total.

Software / tool Occupations Tags
Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 6
Speech recognition software 6
Voice activated software 5
Cyber Records MediChart Express 2
ScanSoft Naturally Speaking 2
Voice dictation software 2
goQ WordQ 2
Courtroom Data Solutions Techlennium 1
Crescendo Systems DigiScribe-XL 1
DSC Pacer Interactive Voice Response System 1
Dictation software 1
General Magic Portico 1
Word recognition software 1
Words+ E Z Keys for Windows 1
g-net solutions MTP 1

Occupations that use Voice recognition software

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 17 occupations in occupations that use Voice recognition software. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Recreational Therapists Occupational Therapists Special Education Teachers, Middle School Special Education Teachers, Secondary School Medical Transcriptionists Rehabilitation Counselors Real Estate Sales Agents Customer Service Representatives Medical Records Specialists AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that use Voice recognition software, by AI task-overlap and median pay

How AI is used by roles that use Voice recognition software

A software category is not itself "being automated" — but we can look at the roles that report using Voice recognition software and ask how those people actually use AI. This rolls the Anthropic Economic Index per-role signal up across those roles, weighted by how much observed AI activity each one has. 52.6% of the 19 roles that use this category carry observed AI-usage data (10 roles).

Across those roles, 41.9% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 46.7% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.03 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
directive 40.6% AI does it; you give the instruction
task iteration 23.6% you and AI go back and forth
learning 16.5% you ask AI to explain or teach
feedback loop 6.0% AI does it, then adjusts from your feedback
validation 1.8% you do it; AI checks your work

Roles behind this signal

The roles using this category that have the most AEI data. "Works with AI" is the role's share of conversations that augment rather than automate.

Occupation Works with AI Autonomy
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive 36.3% 3.0/5
Real Estate Sales Agents 62.2% 3.0/5
Desktop Publishers 46.4% 3.0/5
Customer Service Representatives 35.5% 3.0/5
Medical Transcriptionists 29.9% 3.0/5
Rehabilitation Counselors 74.4% 4.0/5
Social and Human Service Assistants 29.1% 3.0/5
Recreational Therapists 63.1% 4.0/5
Occupational Therapists 38.1% 4.0/5
Speech-Language Pathologists 4.0/5

Source: Anthropic Economic Index (2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2) over a sample of Claude.ai Free and Pro conversations — not all AI tools and not the whole workforce. Roles list software categories in O*NET; this does not mean AI is used inside Voice recognition software, only that people in those roles use AI. Some conversations are left unclassified, so shares need not sum to 100.

Industries that concentrate this

Where Voice recognition software matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly use Voice recognition software (O*NET importance ≥ 3 of 5, or report using the tool category). Concentration compares that reach to the national average industry, so a value above 1× means the requirement is more pervasive here than across the economy as a whole.

Nationally, about 4.0% of workers are in occupations that significantly use Voice recognition software (measured across 66 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Health Care and Social Assistance 1,110,860 4.8%
Educational Services 755,820 5.5%
Finance and Insurance 579,560 9.3%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 573,320 6.3%
Retail Trade 528,480 3.4%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 411,890 3.8%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing 259,200 10.9%
Wholesale Trade 237,520 3.9%
Manufacturing 202,740 1.6%
Other Services (except Public Administration) 198,100 4.5%
Management of Companies and Enterprises 181,090 6.4%
Construction 178,060 2.2%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists National industry 5.33× 21.3%
Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers National industry 4.33× 17.3%
Insurance Agencies and Brokerages National industry 3.7× 14.8%
Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities National industry 2.92× 11.7%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing Sector 2.73× 10.9%
Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers National industry 2.7× 10.8%
Finance and Insurance Sector 2.33× 9.3%
Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations National industry 2.15× 8.6%
Management of Companies and Enterprises Sector 1.6× 6.4%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services Sector 1.57× 6.3%
Exterminating and Pest Control Services National industry 1.52× 6.1%
Utilities Sector 1.43× 5.7%

Reach is a measure of how widespread a requirement is across an industry's workforce, not how intensively any individual uses it. Sector worker counts come from BLS OEWS employment; the significance threshold and tool use come from O*NET. Industries shown by concentration are filtered to a real worker base so a tiny specialty cannot top the list on rounding.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Voice recognition software." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/tools/voice-recognition-software

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Singulariki. (2026). Voice recognition software. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/tools/voice-recognition-software

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  title  = {Voice recognition software},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tools/voice-recognition-software}
}

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