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by selcuka 748 days ago
Yeah, even 24 year-old Nokia 3310 had some form of voice dialling [1].

OS/2 Warp 4.0 (1996) came with speech recognition and dictation software [2]. The CPUs it supported back then weren't much better than a 10-year old phone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3310

[2] https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=OS/2_Warp_4:_%...

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In addition, way back in 1993, Apple released speech recognition with the original AV Macs (which were outfitted with 55 MHz AT&T 3210 DSPs in addition to their 25+ MHz Motorola 68040s) which was then also supported on the PowerPC Macs released the following year (that started at 60 MHz)