I can't pinpoint when exactly, but on windows XP, there used to be a speech to text engine that worked locally. When you set it up, you had to read some text to

I can't pinpoint when exactly, but on windows XP, there used to be a speech to text engine that worked locally. When you set it up, you had to read some text to train it with your voice. You could constantly train it to improve it. This was before the cloudamagig, so I wonder it ran on. Edit: found the link https://www.techrepublic.com/article/solutionbase-using-speech-recognition-in-windows-xp/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/solutionbase-using-spee...