Once again I would like to ask about the compatibility of scrivener with speech recognition software from Nuance, either Dragon Dictate for Mac or Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Windows. Unfortunately Dragon has not yet what they call full text control with scrivener, which is a pity.
Now I was in contact with Peter Mahoney, one of the leading persons of Nuance. In his answer he wrote to me:
„I heard others request support for Scrivener in the past – but I am not that familiar with the software. If they use a proprietary edit control, it would be difficult to get full text control for Dragon. Do they have a web-based product? If they do, we are continuing to support better compatibility for web applications by leveraging the ARIA standards for web accessibility.“
what do you think about this? I’ m no Expert, but Scrivener is not web-based, so bad news? Or is there any chance to get these two great applications together?
I would get back in touch and ask him why they don’t (a) download a copy of Scrivener and try it out … after all, it does have a 30 days of actual use trial license, and (b) more importantly, get in touch with Keith and find out about the technical side of it … since it’s built on the Apple text engine, though with modifications, and using Apple’s X-Code — unlike Microsoft Word, or Pages — that doesn’t sound to me too much like ‘proprietary edit control’. There are a lot of apps which use the same text engine, most importantly for me, Nisus Writer Pro — though that has more extensive modifications — built on the same bases.
I will get back to Peter, and I like to get in contact about this with Keith. And if scrivener for IOX is built on apple text engine, which engine is on the way with scrivener for windows?
Thank you for your help!
Actually, what I meant was try to get Peter to get in contact with Keith.
Scrivener for Windows (and Linux) is built using Qt and the text engine that provides.
Note, I’m merely a very long-term user of Scrivener, not a programmer at all, and merely suggesting how I would try to move forward integration between Scrivener and Nuance. And Keith is the one who knows all the information that they would need to have.