Ask Slashdot: Effective, Reasonably Priced Conferencing Speech-to-Text?

First time accepted submitter DeafScribe writes "Every year during the holidays, many people in the deaf community lament the annual family gathering ritual because it means they sit around bored while watching relatives jabber. This morning, I had the best one-on-one discussion with my mother in years courtesy of her iPhone and Siri; voice recognition is definitely improving. It would've been nice if conference-level speech-to-text had been available this evening for the family dinner. So how about it? Is group speech to text good enough now, and available at reasonable cost for a family dinner scenario?"

Holiday rituals

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it means they sit around bored while watching relatives jabber

Turns out being able to hear doesn't actually help here.