Moreover, composition without the effort of typing eliminates a significant barrier between you and the final product, a barrier that you may have come to take for granted.

But once you master it, you will find the process adds almost no effort to the overall task of composition. In any case, I'm curious about what Nuance staff have to say about this - I'd love to see their engine being integrated with Inquisit.Deciding what you want to say and then saying it, instead of typing it, will seem unnatural at first. This may have changed in the meantime, but if not this is something that would probably not interact well with a timing sensitive reaction time measurement tool such as Inquisit. pretty heavy-weight Dragon helper apps had to be constantly running to feed input to the recognition engine server app in order for the recognition to work (in Office et al.). Instead they used a client-server-app architecture, i.e. Also, it's been a long time since I had any direct contact with Dragon software (back with DNS 8, I believe), and as far as I can remember, the recognition engine did not integrate with Windows XP's Speech control panel applet. However, on a technical note, the SAPI specification available in Windows XP (SAPI 5.1 if I remember correctly) is sketchy at best, lacking key features of later revisions implemented in Windows Vista and 7. AFAIK, Dragon does adhere to the Windows Speech API (SAPI) specifications. Office) unless the app specifically targeted their engine. Otherwise, I don't see how you could use their products with any other Windows apps (e.g. Windows does provide standard interfaces for speech recognition engines, and I'm betting that Dragon implements them.

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