For comedic purposes, it's even better than the Apple Newton's handwriting recognition. Amuse your family members as "milk" is recognized as "halibut", "baby formula" becomes "meat" (who just writes "meat" on their list instead of the specific type?), and "duck" becomes "dog food" (at least it got the first letter right).We did get to recognize "eggs" on the first try.But practically speaking, it would take 10x longer to create a grocery list compared to writing it down. It's a shame it doesn't work better - would be a fun way to do the list.We never got far enough with it to see how it would handle something like "2 pounds of ground beef" or "3 oranges".Family members who tried it have rather plain accents and weren't suffering from colds.