Some time between 8 and 10 years ago, I remember getting voice recognition software with the intent that it would make writing faster.
This was running on a machine with Windows 98 on it — and even with training it didn’t work very well.
I recently saw an iPhone app doing voice dictation and it worked great for recording me without training. It’s amazing how much power new computing devices have (even the tiny ones).
But seeing this video completely blew me away. Not to pick on Tyrone, but his combination of accents (I think it is Australian English combbined with whatever his native asian language is???) makes him difficult for me to understand, yet the software can understand him! That’s amazing! If it can understand him, I’m pretty sure it will be able to understand me.
Video from:
https://www.tyroneshum.com/dragon-dictate/
Here’s a demo of the software:
This reminds me of when in Star Trek III, Scotty picks up the mouse to use the computer and talks into it “Computer…”
The world has come a long way since the TRS-80.