Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.
Charles Stross[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]
Charles StrossTo boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?
Charles StrossWriters block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.
Charles StrossNo two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.
Charles StrossI have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to; for example, an internal monologue by a locquacious and verbose narrator is more likely to be larded with adverbs than an exchange of instant messages between cops at a crime scene.
Charles Stross