[ThoAppelsin]

> (Surprised this has taken so long; the speech recognition libraries have been in .NET since 2014.)

Dictation already was available on Windows 10, although not so streamlined.

In Windows, there are various forms of on-screen keyboards and some of them have this microphone button somewhere right above the top row of the keyboard flushed to the left. When activated, it starts listening you and dictating whatever you say. So, it's not brand new, more like an improvement to the UI, and also to the AI (as far as I know, recognition has also been improved).

Same goes for the Focus Assist, it was available under the same icon, different nane, "Quiet Hours". I keep it always-on on my PCs for several months now, and use it intermittently on my phone. It also got improvements, but allowing some people to bypass is not one of them.

The rest are new. I'm not saying that they are dishonest, they probably just do not mention it over and over everywhere.