 I started using wood prediction probably in the early 90s and it was before I started using speech recognition. Wood prediction was a nice stepping stone to move on to speech recognition. It allowed me to feel comfortable with actually writing. I would see a window pop up and the window would allow me to choose specific woods and this opened up my vocabulary, which was great, as well as it speeded up the time in writing, which was very helpful and it helped me be more accurate in my writing. Wood prediction I use in combination with several assistive technology devices. I use it with speech recognition and I use it with text to speech. So I have a package of software options that are on my desktop that I use. So if I have a wood document open and I'm actually writing in it, I may use speech recognition or I may just use the wood prediction piece as I'm typing the actual woods appeal for me and I get to choose which one I want to use.