Oh wow. That video is 12 years old. Early in the presentation Travis reveals he used Dragon back then.
Do you recall Swype keyboard for Android? The one that popularized swyping to write on touch screens? It had Dragon at some point.
IT WAS AMAZING.
Around 12-14 years ago (Android 2.3? Maybe 3?) I was able to easily dictate full long text messages and emails, in my native tongue, including punctuation and occasional slang or even word formation. I could dictate a decent long paragraph of text on the first try and not have to fix a single character.
It's 2025 and the closest I can find is a dictation app on my newest phone that uses online AI service, yet it's still not that great when it comes to punctuation and requires me to spit the whole paragraph at once, without taking a breath.
Is there anything equally effective for any of you nowadays? That actually works across the whole device?
> It's 2025 and the closest I can find is a dictation app on my newest phone that uses online AI service, yet it's still not that great [...]
> Is there anything equally effective for any of you nowadays?
I'm not affiliated in any way. You might be interested in the "Futo Keyboard" and voice input apps - they run completely offline and respect your privacy.
The source code is open and it does a good job at punctuation without you needing to prompt it by saying, "comma," or, "question mark," unlike other voice input apps such as Google's gboard.
I know and like Futo, very interesting project. Unfortunately multilang models are not great in my case. Still not bad for an offline tool, but far from "forget it's there, just use it" vibe I had with Dragon.
Funny thing is that I may have missgonfigured something in futo, because my typing corrections are phonetical :) so I type something in Polish and get autocorrect in English composed of different letters, but kind of similar sounding word.
Do you recall Swype keyboard for Android? The one that popularized swyping to write on touch screens? It had Dragon at some point.
IT WAS AMAZING.
Around 12-14 years ago (Android 2.3? Maybe 3?) I was able to easily dictate full long text messages and emails, in my native tongue, including punctuation and occasional slang or even word formation. I could dictate a decent long paragraph of text on the first try and not have to fix a single character.
It's 2025 and the closest I can find is a dictation app on my newest phone that uses online AI service, yet it's still not that great when it comes to punctuation and requires me to spit the whole paragraph at once, without taking a breath.
Is there anything equally effective for any of you nowadays? That actually works across the whole device?