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[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The only feature that actually seems useful for on-device AI is voice to text that doesn't need an Internet connection.

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As someone who hates orally dictating my thoughts, that's a no from me dawg, but I can kinda understand the appeal (though I'll note offline TTS has been around for like a decade pre-AI)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 9 hours ago

longer: dragon dictate and similar go back to the mid 90s (and I bet the research goes back slightly earlier, not gonna check now)

similar for TTS