So... apparently Dragon Naturally Speaking (version 16!) has them all blown out of the water....
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2026
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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.
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.
That was incredible. I had no idea it could be so easy.
Ironically, it was LLMs that made voice recognition work, but nobody is interested in pushing them anymore.
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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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Blast from the past, I remember having this included with some game I bought in the 90s and it felt very Star Trek at the time.
I used to work with a pathologist who was so old and stuck in his ways that when the practice was shifting to Dragon, they allowed him to remain on the old transcriptionist service, even though it cost them more.
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Has anyone checked on Bonzi Buddy lately, I think it's time to unfreeze him
Also, Clippy was special, but he wasn't evil.
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They are not ready for my Xbox 360
Meanwhile, Atari is off the scale
My old Amstrad CPC6128 isn't too shabby either
smirks in amiga500
This is also why I use AMD over NVIDIA.
Why?
AMD consumer GPU numbers are I think in the 9000s while Nvidia's are only in the 5000's or maybe 6000's.
Nvidia's really fallen hard, too, they'd reached the 9000s over 18 years ago and just plummeted after that
I'm an idiot.
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Shit like this would be laughed at by my professors. What a bunch of goons
Windows 2000 has entered the chat
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