Offline Voice typing/Speech to text is cool.

Also offline translations.

Offline translation in Firefox is a killer feature for me given that I’m considering moving to another country. It’s so much easier when you can read everything local with the touch of a button.

How does that compare to nerd dictation?

I have tried Handy(FOSS) on Windows & FUTO voice(not FOSS but source available) on Android

I have not used it extensively, but both seem to be good.

It usually means that the laptop has a neural processing unit, which is a low-precision matrix multiplier useful for running neural networks.

When advertised by a laptop manufacturer, it usually means whatever Microsoft is currently shipping with Windows, which may run locally using the NPU, or may rely on Microsoft’s cloud services. Their brochure page lists “real-time translation, image generation, and intelligent search” as things it can do locally.