It is worth noting that the same metric is the exact reason that web browser version numbers are so ridiculous.
What’s that saying? Something about the moment a metric is used to measure performance, it ceases to be a good metric.
That’s what’s happening here. In one of the stupidest ways possible.
Here’s an episode of the excellent “99 percent Invisible” design podcast that interviews a philosopher who ho has written about this topic! https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/673-the-score/
This is also why I use AMD over NVIDIA.
Shit like this would be laughed at by my professors. What a bunch of goons
Windows 2000 has entered the chat
So… apparently Dragon Naturally Speaking (version 16!) has them all blown out of the water…
God that app was such trash. Voice recognition simply did not work in the 2000s yet everybody and their mother tried to push it upon us 20 years too soon, just like they’re trying to do now with LLMs.
Remember when windows vista itself came with a voice to text assistant / keyboard thing?
I remeber trying to train that software for hours as a kid just for it to still not understand me half the time lol.
That was incredible. I had no idea it could be so easy.
I was thinking it was going to be this one:
I don’t know to me the level it worked, is what makes it really silly to me that so few things can handle local transcription today without cloud services. I felt like it was 99% accurate running on a crappy win XP system with like 256 MB ram. Seems to me that it’s crazy that 20 years later we’re “well we need to hook you up to a supercomputer to do that”.
Ironically, it was LLMs that made voice recognition work, but nobody is interested in pushing them anymore.
I love my local LLM voice recognition on my PC through Speech Note on Linux.
I used to work with a pathologist who was so old and stuck in his ways that when the practice was shifting to Dragon, they allowed him to remain on the old transcriptionist service, even though it cost them more.
Blast from the past, I remember having this included with some game I bought in the 90s and it felt very Star Trek at the time.
They are not ready for my Xbox 360
Meanwhile, Atari is off the scale
smirks in amiga500
My old Amstrad CPC6128 isn’t too shabby either
Transylvania 6-5000 is in shambles.
