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arach

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About arach

Arach Tchoupani arach[at]tchoupani.com @arach

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    I send all these stories to my chief of staff agent to "immigrant parent" them into becoming an overachiever

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    Comment #48887503

    I've been building a little app on the side that allows me to primarily read my books in epub, mobi or pdf -> text format but generate readouts on demand for only the bits I want (…

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    Comment #47750411

    https://openscout.app - a local first communication tool, for agent to agent communication and user to agent communication too

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    Comment #47093423

    Error Error: No API found but i love the idea

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    Comment #47070005

    I bought it when it came out and enjoy using it. I have a STT keyboard powered by Parakeet that has a minimized mode ideal for phone terminals https://x.com/usetalkieapp/status/202…

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    Comment #47048728

    Combine this with a nice shortcut keyboard and then you're really flying - my favorites are XP Pen and DOIO 16

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    Comment #47048709

    Ack for dictations but Gemini voice is fun for interactive voice experiments -> https://hud.arach.dev/ honestly blown away by how much Gemini could assist with with basically no de…

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    Comment #47048103

    https://github.com/goodroot/hyprwhspr have you tried this? I have a nice 64GB new linux machine waiting to be set up for me to kick the tires on this pretty sure it's awesome - sor…

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    Comment #47044630

    Hex is great and not trying to pull you away from them - would love to get your pov when you give these a spin next time. email or DM me

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    Comment #47044437

    My M1 16GB Mini and M2 16GB Air both deliver insane local transcription performance without eating up much memory - I think the M line + Parakeet delivers insane local performance …

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    Comment #47044217

    I initially built Talkie to talk to it like a crazy person when I was on long runs and ideas would pop into my head haha Been a power user of SuperWhisper and Wispr Flow for a long…

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    Comment #47044197

    https://x.com/usetalkieapp/status/2022341320090775647/photo/... native app uses Parakeet (v2 or V3) on iOS

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    Comment #47044153

    Handy's great! I find the latency to be just a bit too much for my taste. Like half the people on this thread, built my own but with a bit more emphasis on speed https://usetalkie.…

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    Comment #47044134

    https://usetalkie.com - Parakeet and incredibly fast and made for devs

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    Comment #46722200

    An exploration of infinite canvas, and voice assisted navigation Powered by Gemini (bring your own key)

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    Comment #46567250

    thanks man! I've actually gone a bit further with hooks and speech synthesis https://hooked.arach.dev/ and https://speakeasy.arach.dev/ - it's a fun setup

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    Comment #46567209

    nice, next step is to write a custom function that derives a useful but repeatable message from the hooks and put a little cache in front the Eleven Labs message gen. For example: …

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    Comment #46563195

    > My personal favorite hooks though are these: "Stop": [ { "hooks": [ { "type": "command", "command": "afplay -v 0.40 /System/Library/Sounds/Morse.aiff" }]}], "Notification": [ { "…

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    Comment #46267817

    Same as you and I was glad to see the status page - hit subscribe on updates Claude user base believes in Sunday PM work sessions

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    Comment #46199687

    this probably levels the playing field for a while, and then dramatically raises the bar over a longer period of time as better engineers and better designers get more leverage wit…

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    Comment #46186041

    this feels like language from another era

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    Comment #46165177

    is yo taken?

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    Comment #46029677

    that's a nice idea. i wonder if applying a bit of ai summarization / grouping logic could help present changes in logical sequences regardless of time or file proximity would proba…

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    Comment #45975966

    thanks for sharing, very interesting example