By no means is this computer capable of doing real-time speech recognition, but in a pinch it will definitely work. This was one of the things I was worried about if it would even work at all. To give you an idea about performance, I have to wait about three to six seconds after each sentence for it to load through. The surprising thing is even though it takes longer, this setup is actually a lot more accurate than any of my other systems running Dragon. I'm currently surfing the site/making the post using Dragon and an infrared mouse, and so far it has only made one mistake, and just takes a little bit longer to click than on my regular computers for surfing
