Not complaining to operating system speech recognition devs is the issue.

its like complaining to jiffy lube mechanic about nav system software

https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/fdbdcc8c3c

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50659910/tcl-tk-gui-macos-speech-to-text-dictation

msdn doesnt seem to have any info on troubleshooting dictation

but a keyword pops up: speechrecognizer

dev-perl/Speech-Recognizer-SPX – Gentoo Packages Gentoo package dev-perl/Speech-Recognizer-SPX: Interface to Sphinx-II speech recognition in the Gentoo Packages Database