Speech recognition - Was: Desktop froze

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 at 16:43, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 2023-06-19 at 17:23 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> > I'm sorry for the bad spelling and punctuation and someone in my
> > replies; I am struggling with a badly broken right arm, and I'm
> > dictating this text into my computer.
>
> Hi Liam,
>
> get well soon!

Danke schön!

> What speech recognition are you using and in what language are you
> talking to the speech recognition?

Actually, I have evaluated several. It's been quite interesting. For
now, $WORK has provided me with an M1 powered MacBook Air – The 2020
model. I am using the latest macOS, Ventura, 13.4. I do actually like
Macs, but I'm not wild about this version. My own home iMac is still
running Mac OS X 10.14, which somehow feels more Mac like to me. I
have also tried the speech recognition on that system, which is
substantially slower, and has to send the sound samples over the
Internet to Apple servers every time – but it does work and it is just
about usable. Apples own arm instruction set processors have the horse
power to do all the speech recognition locally, without sending
anything into the cloud.

I also evaluated the speech recognition on both Windows 10 and Windows
11. Windows 11 does handle it rather better, and it's a little bit
better integrated, but bizarrely the totally separate speech
recognition system of Windows 10 is still there as well, and if you're
not careful, you can I have them both on at once.

The Windows system is if anything slightly better at picking up some
subtle details. However on both operating systems, the latest
versions' speech recognition doesn't have the ability to customise the
dictionary, add your own words, redefine existing ones and so on. It's
more capable, but less customisable.

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