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by dehrmann 1206 days ago
Early versions of Dragon Naturally Speaking ran on Pentiums.
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Dragon Naturally Speaking required extensive training on the voice of the user, and the result wasn't as accurate as modern machine-learning speech-to-text models. You had to watch it and actively correct it's results.

IMO, the accuracy of modern speech-to-text models is still nowhere near accurate enough. Maybe they should bring back the per-user training

I remember seeing this on a trade fair as a child with my mother in 1993