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You don't like accessibility?
Not for that price.
The "price" of a free offline speech to text AI model? Three of them, actually, to work with varying levels of compute resources available?
You anti-AI folks are friggin' ridiculous.
I don’t think it’s anti-AI more a lack of trust of services saying here’s a product…and the concern it will be used for ulterior motives. I know I don’t like my voice being captured.
It's captured when you press a button and only handled locally. This is exactly the sort of thing you want for accessibility. Not everybody can type or type well.
I admit I don't know the details, but the title makes it seem like there is a "product" there, by a "company", probably in it for the profit. And since there is a huge problem with datacenters as it is, why would we encourage more? Most of you AI enthousiasts are blindly walking us into a pit of regret.
You don't know more than the details - you don't know anything about it.
Guess you'll want to research what "offline" means. I doubt you have any idea what any problems with datacenters are either given your.. we'll call it "knowledge" of the situation.
Nothing AI is free. Unless there's a chain of custody for all of the training data, it's still unethical even if it's used for a good thing. If I build a wheelchair ramp out of the flesh and bones of orphans I'm still not a very good person. And there are non-AI ways to accomplish this that are just as good that would require almost comically less resources.
This attitude is why Ubuntu, and only Ubuntu, recommends a minimum of 6 GB of Ram btw. You can run a full KDE system with onboard graphics and all the bells and whistles for less than 2 GB on other distros.
This is the weirdest sort of AI bullshit I keep coming across.
And... Where are they?
Fuck AI.
Well "reasoned" argument there. You'll go far in MAGA.