Google’s new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (Pixel only)
"But it’s sort of funny considering hardly any of Google’s other products work offline. Are you going to dictate into a shared document while you’re offline? Write an email? Ask for a conversion between liters and cups? You’re going to need a connection for that!"<p>While offline, you might write email drafts, your blog, or even a book:<p><a href="https://medium.com/@augustbirch/what-i-learned-writing-an-entire-novel-on-my-phone-f1655d09b00b" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@augustbirch/what-i-learned-writing-an-en...</a><p>What's missing is the ability to make edits using your phone.  You can probably speak at over 100 words a minute but then you need to stop to bring up the software keyboard.