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.

It is only just barely usable today.

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".