Speech recognition - Was: Desktop froze

[Bret Busby]

On 21/6/23 01:35, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-06-20 at 17:30 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>> [snip] 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. [snip] Apples own arm instruction set processors have the
>> horse power to do all the speech recognition locally [snip]
> 
> Hi Liam,
> 
> I was hoping you had something to report about Linux speech recognition.
> Taking a look at my iPads, only the still supported iPad Pro provides
> "Dictation". My iPads as of 2023-06-11 https://i.imgur.com/J7rMbVQ.jpg .
> This day I tried to migrate to dark themes, but only the iPad Pro
> provides a dark theme, hence the different colours of the folders.
> 
> Info about "Dictation": “[snip] When you use Dictation, your device will
> indicate in Keyboard Settings if your voice inputs and transcripts for
> general text Dictation (for example, composing messages and notes, but
> not dictating in a search box) are processed on your device and not sent
> to Siri servers. Otherwise, the things you dictate are sent to and
> processed on the server. [snip]”
> 
> I turned it on and run a short and simple test.
> 
> German and English dictionaries are selected. German and English
> keyboards are installed. The default language is English, just some apps
> are set to German.
> 
> Everywhere an onscreen keyboard is available, "Dictation" can be used
> instead. This is at least what Apple claims.
> 
> I opened the Apple MUA and enabled “Dictation” by pushing a microphone
> icon on the onscreen keyboard and said
> 
> “hallo wie geht es dir” the speech recognition was very fast, but wrote
> “hello, vegan steer”.
> 

I understood that all steers are vegans...

:)



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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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