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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by slightwinder on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:09AM (#23220124)
Do you mean Dragon Speech or how it was called?

Anyway, old speech recognition software was quite horrible. Most did not even worked without prior training. And Google does have now offline-speech recognition too. But true, the ability to trigger with any desired phrase is something still missing.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by rjmunro on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:36AM (#23220290)
The ability to trigger with any desired phrase is easy, but not done for privacy reasons, to reduce the chance of it accidentally listening to irrelevant conversations.

The inability to change it from Hey google is done for marketing / usability reasons.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by TrinaryWorksToo on Monday May 18, 2020 @02:57PM (#23226887)
Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking
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