2026-09-12 10:03 UTC
@halle@infosec.exchange
A trainable voice to text feature would be a lot more useful. I don’t need 15 seconds of creeping on my conversations. I need a way to produce text for work. I need that tech to be able to deal with accents other than midwestern US and southern England. I need to add nomenclature.
Basically replace Dragon Naturally Speaking features and offer them for less than €300 and the price of a new Windows machine.
Replies (1)
-
@halle@infosec.exchange 2026-09-12 10:11
@akareilly@hachyderm.io Yes, before I did this kind of stuff I made an offline speech SDK, and these were the use cases I was constantly asked about (but large vocab was premature for on-device at that time) – for instance, medical practitioners who wanted to make notes on the go, which meant good accent recognition, which meant adaptation per-user. I feel like we've swept right past the (boring) human-helpful use cases into the (more exciting to product designers) dystopian ones.