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alex.t@ottex.ai

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    Comment #49028554

    I'm a huge fan of fountain pens, it's a very satisfying experience to write with a nice pen on a proper paper. I use platinum 3776, it's quite expensive one, but it's just amazing.…

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    Comment #48965542

    I'm founder of ottex.ai, I use stt pretty much all the time when work with AI and quite often for communications to draft emails and chat messages. I started ottex half a year ago …

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    Comment #48828938

    Meh... Waiting for OpenAI models without this 5 more days subscription bullshit. It looks like Anthropic baiting people into Max subscriptions before turning the model off. No than…

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    Comment #48788960

    What are some cool random things you've learned? // you == the reader of this comment

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    Comment #48689778

    What about request caching? If you swap to a cheaper model mid execution it might cost more that to make multiple requests to the already cached provider?

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    Comment #48112077

    +1 for Go! it's my go-to language for any new project at the moment. It's simple, idiomatic, has no awaits, fast compile times, static typing, and it is very opinionated, which hel…

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    Comment #48087791

    Working on https://ottex.ai - voice ai for busy professionals. Think wisprflow + granola with 30+ top STT models under single login and pay as you go billing model with 25% markup …

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    Comment #47995293

    What is yours agentic development experience with elixir? I used to like elixir a lot during a pre agentic era, but with coding agents it feels like the language isn't the best cho…

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    Comment #47995219

    Small advice - make one repo “main” and link to it from the website instead of an organisation. I wanted to star the project to track the progress but it feels a bit weird.. Which …

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    Comment #47872872

    That's really cool! One thing I'm confused with is how to create a shared resources like e.g. a redis server and connect to it from other vms? It looks now quite cumbersome to setu…

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    Comment #47687392

    Nope, but I will think about this, thank you for the idea. Maybe it's time to start a technical blog for ottex

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    Comment #47680475

    There is no cold starts at all. It’s running non-stop. Bunny bills per resource utilization (not provisioned) and since we run backend on Go it consumes like 0.01 CPU and 15mb RAM …

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    Comment #47677724

    We at ottex.ai use bunny.net to deploy globally an openrouter like speach-to-text API (5 continents, 26 locations, idle cost 3$). Highly recommend their Edge Containers product, su…

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    Comment #47673482

    Anecdotally, I’ve been seeing a lot of weird behavior from Opus when it decides, mid-execution, to switch to a different "simpler" solution, and that really pissed me off. At one p…

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    Comment #47672002

    Try ottex.ai - it has an OpenRouter like gateway with most STT models on the market (Gemini, OpenAI, Groq, Deepgram, Mistral, AssemblyAI, Soniox), so you can try them all and choos…

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    Comment #47236578

    It's actually a nice idea - an always-on micro AI agent with voice-to-text capabilities that listens and acts on your behalf. Actually, I'm experimenting with this kind of stuff an…

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    Comment #47236467

    I've been experimenting with Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and the quality is very good. I haven't found official benchmarks yet, but you can find Gemini 3 Flash word error rate benchmarks…

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    Comment #47235912

    You can test Gemini 3.1 Lite transcription capabilities in https://ottex.ai — the only dictation app supporting Gemini models with native audio input. We benchmarked it for real-li…

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    Comment #47234850

    Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our most cost-efficient Gemini model, optimized for low latency use cases for high-volume, cost-sensitive LLM traffic. It provides a significant quality in…

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    Comment #47045870

    Try ottex with Gemini 3 flash as a transcription model. I'm bilingual as well and frequently switch between languages - Gemini handles this perfectly and even the case when I speak…