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Speech-recognition software is something that's been in the works since before the invention of the microchip (read a brief history here). Up until very recently, it hasn't worked very well. I personally remember being the class computer nerd in the mid-90s and my junior high computer science teacher, sensing my nerdery, let me fool around with a free trial of IBM's ViaVoice. Needless to say, it took a heck of a lot longer to speak a sentence than it did for me to type up a page. 

But, as time went on, things naturally got better. A lot better. BuilderWerks, made by IntoText, bills itself as the building industry's cost-effective speech recognition-based jobsite construction management solution. 

According to IntoText President and developer Brig Johnson, his software, released in 2006, can save your supers and managers an hour and a half or more on paperwork. The software allows your men (and women) on the field to dictate paperwork, where it is queued up and automatically arranged and sent into e-mails, faxes, text documents and spreadsheets. 

If you didn't see BuilderWerks at IBS, check them out here.