Even if we just had reliable FOSS voice recognition without the rest, I think hackers could create powerful user experiences. But alas, even that seems to be

Even if we just had reliable FOSS voice recognition without the rest, I think hackers could create powerful user experiences. But alas, even that seems to be asking too much. There are some FOSS efforts to implement state of the art solutions with lots of training data, Mozilla has been working on this from what I understand, but last I checked nothing was really ready yet and the stuff Mozilla is working on needs really beefy server hardware to run, which I think unfortunately disqualifies it as a viable competitor to the commercial offerings (which also use expensive hardware, but don't require end users to know anything about it.)