2026-10-01 23:07 UTC
God that app was such trash. Voice recognition simply did not work in the 2000s yet everybody and their mother tried to push it upon us 20 years too soon, just like they’re trying to do now with LLMs.
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@empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-01 23:27
Remember when windows vista itself came with a voice to text assistant / keyboard thing? I remeber trying to train that software for hours as a kid just for it to still not understand me half the time lol.
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@marcos@lemmy.world 2026-10-01 23:38
Ironically, it was LLMs that made voice recognition work, but nobody is interested in pushing them anymore.
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@TheFogan@programming.dev 2026-10-01 23:49
I don’t know to me the level it worked, is what makes it really silly to me that so few things can handle local transcription today without cloud services. I felt like it was 99% accurate running on a crappy win XP system with like 256 MB ram. Seems to me that it’s crazy that 20 years later we’re “well we need to hook you up to a supercomputer to do that”.
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@VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 2026-10-02 12:58
It is only just barely usable today.