Hopefully smaller models soon that can be deployed locally for personal use, definitely don't want the speech data sent outside. But having the speech ability is going to improve usefulness of the already great gen AI models drastically!
keep an eye on https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard
keep an eye on https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard