I think it's certainly possible if you compromise on accuracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_NaturallySpeaking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Natur

I think it's certainly possible if you compromise on accuracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_NaturallySpeaking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_NaturallySpeaking has been around since the late 90s, there's various (rather robotic-sounding) free speech synths available which don't require much processing power at all (look at the system requirements of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Automatic_Mouth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Automatic_Mouth ), and of course machine translation has been an active topic of research since the mid-20th century. IMHO it's unfortunate that everyone jumps to "use AI!" as the default now, when very competitive approaches that have been developed over the past few decades could provide decent results but at a fraction of the computing resources, i.e. a much higher efficiency.