@simon @profdiggity It's true re: on-device transcription in 2025 being more feasible than it was in 2017. Though in 2017 having voice assistants on phones was already well past commonplace, as well as voice activation of said assistants, even if some of it was farmed off to servers (I'm actually uncertain how much was at the time myself). So people had good reason in 2017 to be paranoid about such things; they were already used to being listened to in the regular operation of their life