Fact · Dictation software
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The timeline of dictation and speech recognition products dataset draws on 35 distinct sources.
Calculated from 39 data points on October 19, 2026
- How it is calculated
- Count of the distinct sources behind the dataset's 39 rows: 35.
A statistic of the dataset History of Dictation Software: A Dated Timeline, calculated by code from its published rows.
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- Amazon's press release of June 23, 2015 says Amazon introduced Echo seven months earlier, which places the introduction of Echo, the device built around Alexa, in November 2014.
- Apple announced on October 4, 2011 that the iPhone 4S introduces Siri, an intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking. Siri was offered in beta.
- Apple said that with on-device speech recognition, the audio of users' requests is processed on the iPhone or iPad by default.
- Apple's WWDC25 session 277 introduces the new SpeechAnalyzer API for speech to text.
- Deepgram's changelog dates the release of Nova-3, which it calls its most advanced speech-to-text model to date, to February 12, 2025.
- In April 1997, Dragon Systems unveiled NaturallySpeaking, the first general-purpose, large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition product.
- In March 1990, Dragon Systems introduced DragonDictate, which the company said was the first commercially viable typewriter that works by human speech.
- On May 18, 2016, Google CEO Sundar Pichai's post said Google was pleased to introduce the Google assistant.
- Google's research blog published its post on the all-neural, on-device Gboard speech recognizer on March 12, 2019.
- Google Cloud updated the generally available Chirp 2 model on October 7, 2024, to improve its accuracy and multilingual capabilities.
- Google Cloud launched a new Speech-to-Text model named chirp_telephony on January 8, 2024, for telephony audio.
- Google Cloud made the Chirp 2 model generally available on January 27, 2025.
- Google Cloud launched chirp_3 in private preview on April 11, 2025.
- Google's Android Developers Blog, in a post dated 12 December 2011, says voice typing is a new feature available in Android 4.0.
- Google's Docs Blog post dated September 2, 2015 says Voice typing in Google Docs is available in more than 40 languages.
- Google's Docs Blog post dated September 2, 2015 introduces Voice typing in Google Docs and says to activate it from the Tools menu when using Docs in Chrome.
- Home Assistant's timeline of its voice work lists the launch of the Voice Preview Edition in December 2024.
- The Kaldi project says its code was released on 14 May 2011 and presented publicly at ICASSP 2011 in Prague.
- System-wide Dictation came to the Mac with OS X Mountain Lion, released on July 25, 2012, and could type anywhere you could type.
- Meta announced the Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) project on May 22, 2023, with speech-to-text and text-to-speech for over 1,100 languages.
- Microsoft's Windows Vista speech recognition guide, updated in June 2007, says speech recognition is part of the Windows Vista operating system, for dictating documents and controlling programs by voice.
- On June 8, 2017, Microsoft's Windows Insider Blog announced dictation on the Windows 10 desktop in build 16215, started with the new dictation hotkey Win + H.
- Microsoft announced on 12 April 2021 that it would acquire Nuance Communications in an all-cash transaction valued at $19.7 billion, including Nuance's net debt.
- Microsoft's announcement dated September 20, 2022, of the Windows 11 2022 Update lists voice access (preview), which lets you control your PC and author text using only your voice.
- Microsoft announced on Friday, March 4, 2022 that it had completed its acquisition of Nuance Communications Inc.
- Mistral dated its Voxtral announcement July 15, 2025, and says it releases the Voxtral models.
- NVIDIA's model card for Parakeet TDT 0.6B v2 gives its release date as 05/01/2025.
- NVIDIA's model card for Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 gives its release date as 08/14/2025, on Hugging Face.
- OpenAI's Whisper maintainers announced the large-v3 model on November 6, 2023.
- OpenAI's Whisper maintainers announced the large-v3-turbo model on October 1, 2024.
- Otter.ai's press page lists a press release dated July 21, 2026, announcing Live Assist as the first live coaching agent for every call.
- Philips introduced a mini-cassette for dictation machines in 1967, a year after it built a cassette recorder into a portable radio.
- Superwhisper's changelog dates the version 1.11.0 update, which added support for 100 or more spoken languages, to August 3, 2023.
- Talon Voice's changelog marks version 0.1.0, dated September 20, 2020, as the cross-platform public release of Talon, for macOS, Windows and Linux.
- Microsoft says Voice Access replaced Windows Speech Recognition in Windows 11 version 22H2 and later in September 2024, and that Speech Recognition remains available in older versions of Windows.
- Apple introduced Voice Control with macOS Catalina in 2019 to let people control a Mac entirely by voice, using on-device speech recognition.
- OpenAI released Whisper as open-source software on September 21, 2022.
- Wispr announced on September 30, 2024 a new $12 million investment, led by Matt Kraning with participation from NEA, 8VC, Tim Junio and Alumni Ventures, to help fuel the launch of Wispr Flow.
- Microsoft's list of deprecated Windows features dates the deprecation of Windows Speech Recognition, and its replacement by Voice Access, to December 2023.