[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Pretty darn good voice dication software.

[Robert Primak]

 Error correction: "is done locally" should read "if done locally".
-- Bob Primak
    On Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 11:49:11 AM EST, Robert Primak <bobprimak at yahoo.com> wrote:  
 
  Not defending what P.K. said or recommends, but:
AI, including speech recognition, requires a lot of computing power, either CPU or GPU, is done locally on your own computer. The alternative is to do what nearly everyone from Microsoft to Google to Apple to Amazon does -- perform most of the computations in the Cloud or on remote servers, and use the results on the local device. In fact, this is the only way to get decent speech to text on a phone. 
So what Apple may be doing is to leverage remote servers for the processing, freeing up the local computer to do other tasks. This would account for Nancy's discovery that everything you say is sent to Apple for "storage". This is possibly no more permanent than Amazon's Alexa sending your speech to Amazon's servers for "storage". In the case of Alexa, the storage is temporary, though some speech is retained for training purposes. 
If you are not comfortable with remote processing, probably speech recognition is not for you. But it is difficult to avoid voice commands these days, and becoming increasingly difficult to avoid all kinds of AI which is showing up in our devices, including TVs, cars and home assistants. 
-- Bob Primak 

    On Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 11:18:22 AM EST, Slater Nancy via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us> wrote:  
 
 P. K., this dictation system wants to send everything you say to Apple, for “storage.” Are you comfortable with that? I’m not sure that I am.
Nancy

> On Feb 9, 2024, at 4:35 PM, PK Shiu via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us> wrote:
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> The built-in dictation available on Macintosh. OS X works very well. It is built-in. I am in fact using it to type this email right now. The only annoying thing is I cannot figure out how to do things like backspace or delete wrong text however it is smart enough to recognize things like insert a :-) so I actually said smiley and then the word face and it will insert the emoji instead check it out. If you have a Mac, it is under settings and dictation.
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> P.K.
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