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Re:GitHub is planning Voice to Code by smcleod on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:35AM (#33544183)
To be fair Siri was really good before iOS15 on the phone - very rarely got a word wrong then I don't know what they changed but it went belly up for me and many other people have said the same.

On macOS it still seems pretty good - I have carpal tunnel syndrome and by Thursday or Friday most weeks I end up using Siri to dictate not code but a lot of conversations in Slack, pull requests, iMessage, etc. In fact, I wrote this reply with Siri right now.

Re:GitHub is planning Voice to Code by adwww on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:37AM (#33544210)
I don't know what version number, but when it was new I could depend on it to do things like sending SMS while driving, changing the navigation, etc.

Now it's barely worth attempting, because it gets it wrong more than it gets it right.

Re:GitHub is planning Voice to Code by smcleod on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:42AM (#33544242)
I definitely notice there's a difference in quality depending on your network latency I thought quite a bit of the processing was done locally now, but latency seems play such a part in its quality.
Re:GitHub is planning Voice to Code by mikerg87 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:43AM (#33544248)
iPhone ability to convert speech to text has always been good. It’s always been Siri’s capacity to take a meaningful action from the recognized speech that has been problematic.