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mnbbrown

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About mnbbrown

@mnbbrown me@matthewbrown.io

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    You guys sound like cool guys.

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    Comment #48477525

    I've loved using pgdog for the last 6 months. It's been incredibly stable. It's nifty how they've solved the LISTEN/NOTIFY on a transaction pooler problem.

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    Comment #47602117

    Added gladia.. - 1. Soniox (stt-async-v4): +176 new cases, running total 176/248 (71.0%) - 2. ElevenLabs (scribe_v2): +26 new cases, running total 202/248 (81.5%) - 3. Speechmatics…

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    Comment #47600463

    They are all transcribed by multiple blinded "accent natives". But yes, your point is valid - going to see if I can tease out the "single person accuracy".

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    Comment #47593226

    Ran it over our internal dataset of ~250 recordings of people saying british postcodes (all kinds of accents, etc) - it's competitive for sure! Soniox (stt-async-v4): 176/248 (71.0…

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    Comment #46892471

    Incroyable! Competitive (if not better) than deepgram nova-3, and much better than assembly and elevenlabs in basically all cases on our internal streaming benchmarking. The datase…

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    Comment #45096398

    Elyos ( https://elyos.ai ) | London, UK | ONSITE | YC S23 Company: We're the UK's fastest growing AI voice company (~30% MoM) - very deeply focused on the trades industry right now…

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    Comment #43877702

    As someone who’s from Brisbane but spent the last 7 years in London you’re 100% correct. Brisbane is the best city in the world. I’m excited to eventually move back.

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    Ask HN: iOS STT for postcodes, addresses better than deepgram?

    Why is iOS speech to text so much better at numbers, addresses and postcodes than Deepgram, whisper, etc? It nails them - the rest are mediocre at best. Does anybody know of a mode…

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    Comment #41977719

    That’s cool! Very familiar with BMSs but the lack of open standards and protocols has been extremely frustrating - makes me appreciate how good we have it with HTTP, etc. Lots say …

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    Comment #41970646

    Decarbonising buildings and massive warehouses.. It's a very fun mix of hardware (for data collection), and crazy SQL queries to model energy flows between buildings, solar, batter…

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    Ask HN: Please stop hosting engineering blogs on medium

    So much knowledge stuck behind a paywall.

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    Comment #40257227

    Could ask for a username the first time they publish. Low friction

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