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Re:Microsoft in advanced talks to buy Nuance by porker on Monday April 12, 2021 @02:26AM (#26776531)
Good. Microsoft's own speech-to-text in Windows 10 continues to have poor accuracy in Long-form dictation. I was spending so long editing I went back to typing.

My android phone was more accurate so now I dictate there and email myself the text.

Re:Microsoft in advanced talks to buy Nuance by mkl on Monday April 12, 2021 @04:23AM (#26777092)
Don't get your hopes up too high. Dragon isn't that great, in my experience. I use it for prose text to help limit my typing, and I do spend a significant portion of the time frustratedly editing dumb mistakes that should obviously be something else from the context (wrong grammar or nonsensical combinations of words). Correcting and re-correcting and training and retraining words it keeps getting wrong is really frustrating. It may be that their NZ English model was built from a smaller corpus, so YMMV.

I'd rather not use a cloud service like Google.

Re:Microsoft in advanced talks to buy Nuance by kenoph on Monday April 12, 2021 @08:30AM (#26778626)
You might be interested in this: https://github.com/biemster/gasr (not production-grade, but depending on your workflow you can hack on it)