@reillypascal I have a general question, I do not know if you want to clarify it. Do you consider speech2text or language translation (probably via LLMs now) in the category of generative ai?

Myself I can barely muscle through german and probably not French articles with my brain but I feel guilty about using LLM translation and reading as a fake polyglot.

@screwlisp it's a good question. As far as calling it generative, I'm not sure what my answer would be. I have heard anecdotally that Google Translate used to be better before it moved from more traditional machine translation to LLMs.

Both in terms of my values and potential quality issues, I would definitely prefer to avoid using the current crop of LLM tools for either of these tasks, although I'm not opposed to the tasks themselves. I've been using Transcribro for speech to text on my phone (because of joint pain issues), and this is reminding me that I should check what technology that uses.

At any rate, for my website, I haven't used either speech to text or machine translation.