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.

Ironically, it was LLMs that made voice recognition work, but nobody is interested in pushing them anymore.

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".

It is only just barely usable today.