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by WorldMaker 1608 days ago
The last time I tried Dragon it was just a fancier (bloatware) UI built directly on top of Windows Voice Recognition (and IMO not adding much value on top of it): https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-voice-recogn...

Windows Voice Recognition has been around forever (out of the box since XP), it's UI is "serviceable" but not great. (It was slightly better when Cortana was briefly "out of the box" in Windows 10, but has reverted some since.) But I don't think you need to pay for Dragon (or its high memory consumption) if you don't mind taking to learn the quirks of Windows Voice Recognition directly. Most of Dragon's quirks are Windows' quirks anyway papered over with a UI that makes it seem like they are adding value.

Also yeah, one of the answers to "how is it that no one has built something better?" is: Well, Microsoft tried with Cortana, got a huge blowback that "no one" wanted Cortana on their PCs, and gave up.
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Stevvo 1608 days ago
Not sure where you got that idea. Dragon predates Windows and has always used its own models.

It works very well for some people; many have written books with it.

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