Most desktops don’t have microphones, although all laptops do. I guess it was never deemed useful enough since a mouse and keyboard have been fine for decades. Text To Speech was created as a way to assist with “arduous” text input on mobile devices with small screens.
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ubermeisters@lemmy.world 11 months agowhats with that? and why dont i get native text to speech? why are phones advancing and PC arent
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
I dobt hace any proboems tyojing on by pjone keyvosrd.
ubermeisters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
i don’t know a single PC user that doesn’t have a camera/microphone, and the technology is all there. its just laziness on developers part. And by “developers” here, I of course mean the bean counters that decide what the actual devs work on.
Traegs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t have a webcam. And I didn’t have a functioning microphone for several years until recently.
ubermeisters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well if it doesn’t apply to you then fuck everybody else I suppose
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
PCs are, Windows isn’t
ubermeisters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
UI suppose you’re going to give me a 25-step process to install voice to text on linux now, as if i couldn’t still do the same thing on windows right?
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
I was referencing Bluetooth, so no