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Re:Exploring the Web Speech API by interrealmedium on Saturday February 15, 2020 @06:47AM (#22334698)
>It would be cool with a completely offline SpeechRecognition...

Nuance still makes Dragon and Windscribe branded speech recognition software. Dragon was great +20 years ago. Not sure how it is now, but investigating offline speech recognition is on my agenda because Microsoft nerved theirs to push people to their online service.

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Re:Exploring the Web Speech API by techbio on Saturday February 15, 2020 @09:19AM (#22335437)
Oh, gotcha, “Microsoft nerfed theirs”
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Re:Exploring the Web Speech API by interrealmedium on Saturday February 15, 2020 @09:23AM (#22335458)
It worked fine in Windows 7, and barely gets "Yes" or "No" in its current iteration.
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