Looked it up some more; most of the difficulty of speech-to-text engines are text normalization and converting words into sounds. Since you only have dictionary

Looked it up some more; most of the difficulty of speech-to-text engines are text normalization and converting words into sounds. Since you only have dictionary words, you might be able to use a phonetic dictionary. Wikipedia and discussions with another techie friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis#Challenges http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis#Challenges