Yes they had text to speech, but not as good as today, not nearly as robust, you had to train it. Google do also have on device speech transcription, for their

Yes they had text to speech, but not as good as today, not nearly as robust, you had to train it. Google do also have on device speech transcription, for their own phones with neural engines. Their blog post points out that it's quite a resource intensive method of doing things. https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/an-all-neural-on-device-speech.html https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/an-all-neural-on-device-sp...