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Buried in the replies is a comparison with iOS’s on device speech recognition enabled, which paints a somewhat (though not entirely) different story: https://tw

Buried in the replies is a comparison with iOS’s on device speech recognition enabled, which paints a somewhat (though not entirely) different story: https://twitter.com/BenLumenDigital/status/1265718269190832128 https://twitter.com/BenLumenDigital/status/12657182691908321...

itg 6y ago
Apple is still behind on accuracy either using on device or server connection.
- mastermojo 6y ago
  Yes, though keep in mind that Twitter/Hacker News power users are often very privacy conscious. I think people are happy about offline mode regardless of how relatively fast or accurate it is.
  - panpanna 6y ago
    How "offline" is the offline mode? Will it contact servers to sends statistics and samples when back online?
gonational 6y ago
I don’t know what the “new feature” bit is about; I’ve been using off-line dictation on iOS for years. Anytime I need to dictate something very long, I turn the phone on airplane mode so that I can dictate without Apple, inevitably deciding, at some point in the middle of my dictation, to delete my entire message and begin to retype it in slow motion (has anybody else experienced this? I’ve been dealing with this for at least five years, since an early version of their online dictation). Unfortunately, airplane mode is the only way to enable off-line dictation. Or, is there another way? The first version of dictation had no online mode at all; when Apple added that, presumably as a Slowloris attack on the entire world, it ruined the entire experience.
- jdtang13 6y ago
  Yes. It is absolutely horrible. You can press-hold on the mic icon to force it to offline mode.
  - gonational 6y ago
    OMG thank you!
  - jamescham 6y ago
    Oh! Good to know!
jdtang13 6y ago
If you want to enable Apple's much-better offline dictation, you can press-hold on the microphone icon, then select "English (US)" or even any other language. Apple's online, presumably neural network based speech transcription service is horrible. It is an absolute disaster. Slow, unresponsive, drops syllables randomly, and provides no good feedback to the user. It is hard to believe that it was designed by someone who actually intended this product to be consumed by real users. It fails even basic comparisons against the predecessor that it was intended to replace.

itg 6y ago

Apple is still behind on accuracy either using on device or server connection.

mastermojo 6y ago
Yes, though keep in mind that Twitter/Hacker News power users are often very privacy conscious. I think people are happy about offline mode regardless of how relatively fast or accurate it is.
- panpanna 6y ago
  How "offline" is the offline mode? Will it contact servers to sends statistics and samples when back online?

gonational 6y ago

I don’t know what the “new feature” bit is about; I’ve been using off-line dictation on iOS for years. Anytime I need to dictate something very long, I turn the phone on airplane mode so that I can dictate without Apple, inevitably deciding, at some point in the middle of my dictation, to delete my entire message and begin to retype it in slow motion (has anybody else experienced this? I’ve been dealing with this for at least five years, since an early version of their online dictation). Unfortunately, airplane mode is the only way to enable off-line dictation. Or, is there another way? The first version of dictation had no online mode at all; when Apple added that, presumably as a Slowloris attack on the entire world, it ruined the entire experience.

jdtang13 6y ago
Yes. It is absolutely horrible. You can press-hold on the mic icon to force it to offline mode.
- gonational 6y ago
  OMG thank you!
- jamescham 6y ago
  Oh! Good to know!

jdtang13 6y ago

If you want to enable Apple's much-better offline dictation, you can press-hold on the microphone icon, then select "English (US)" or even any other language. Apple's online, presumably neural network based speech transcription service is horrible. It is an absolute disaster. Slow, unresponsive, drops syllables randomly, and provides no good feedback to the user. It is hard to believe that it was designed by someone who actually intended this product to be consumed by real users. It fails even basic comparisons against the predecessor that it was intended to replace.