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I must admit its been a while, but all these things where horrible last time i played with them.
It's a *lot* better these days. Here's how you could use it to improve the English in your comment:
Mistake: "its" is a possessive pronoun (like his, her, their), while "it's" is the contraction of "it has". Fix: Use "it's" because the writer means "it has been a while".
Tip: When in doubt, try expanding “it’s” to “it is” or “it has” and see if the sentence still makes sense. If it doesn’t, you probably want "its".
Mistake: "where" (a location) is confused with "were" (past tense of are). Fix: Use "were" to correctly form the past tense of "to be".
Tip: Say it aloud—“they were horrible” sounds natural, while “they where horrible” doesn’t. If it’s a verb (they were), you want "were".
Mistake: Lowercase "i". Fix: Always capitalize "I" when it's a pronoun referring to oneself.
Tip: This is more about habit than logic—just train yourself to always type "I" in uppercase, even in casual writing.
Full corrected version: "I must admit it's been a while, but all these things were horrible last time I played with them."
this comment sucks. let people type in lowercase. lemmy isn't fucking academia.
I only capitalize things when my phone autocorrects me or I'm using voice to text like right now
AI really has come a very long way hasn't it. It was not that long ago that you had to train the computer on your own voice and even then accuracy was annoyingly bad. Now it can transcribe speech from just about anyone at much better levels of accuracy.
It's reasonably good although it has gotten worse lately weirdly. Sometimes it just completely ignores what I say or hilarious sound alikes come from what I'm saying. It is a lot better than it was about 5 years ago though.
Yeah I've noticed it sometimes seems to get worse. Don't know what phone you use, but when I use Google's voice-to-text on Android, I often have to correct mistakes, because it tries to do it word-by-word, but sometimes what I actually intend is not clear until I've spoken the whole sentence - and for whatever reason, Google very rarely goes back and changes a word it's already transcribed. For instance, if I say, "I think your speaking" it's not yet clear if that should be a "your" or a "you're", and it won't become clear until I complete the sentence/clause.
If I want to dictate a long piece of text, I will use OpenAI's text-to-speech, which is almost flawless (it doesn't start transcribing until you've finished everything you're going to say). I appreciate some people don't like OpenAI, but to be honest, Google isn't much better, and likewise Apple is not a lot better than Google.