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Can you describe this? Tried googling but couldn’t find due to TPUs being so ubiquitous.
As in what is a TPU? It's Tensor Processing Unit. It's like a CPU/GPU, but specifically for doing the kind of math you come across with Machine Learning / Neural Network applications (mostly: lots and lots of dot products).
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Oh I loved my Model-M Space Saver, collected quite a few of them. Co-workers did sometimes comment/complain but not that often. I also had this habit of moving my cursor keys up/down/left/right in rapid/slow movements while I was thinking deeply on a problem. Combined with how loud and that it clicks on each downpress and clacks on release was quite the cacophony.
I have the full size Model-M I would use a Model-M Space Saver as my daily driver but the full size is too big for my desk while also using a mouse.
The sentence explaining what it does has a typo which makes it confusing: > Unclack is the small but mighty Mac utility that mutes your keyboard while you type. This should say "mutes your _microphone_ while you type". You can't mute a keyboard
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You do not have a hardware mute button. There is an output mute, but not an input mute. I wrote one in about 10 lines of AppleScript and associated it with a hot key. It ~mostly~ works. If you are talking about the application-specific software mute, I had such a terrible time finding it amongst all my open tabs and latency every time I wanted to type or speak that I wrote the above hardware-ish button.
I wrote a Hammerspoon script to do the same, but Microsoft Teams unmutes the default input every time you join a call. Did you run into this/have any idea how to get around it?
I wish push-to-talk was more common. On linux I've been using this little python script that implements global push-to-talk by (un)muting the microphone in pulseaudio when you push a button. https://gitlab.com/somini/inpulse-to-talk Time to see if there's something equivalent for mac.
When I downloaded it the DMG file was 12.2Mb. I was suspicious of why an app this small in function would require such a large download, and looked inside, but the actual contents was only 1.4Mb, half of which was icons etc., which seems much more reasonable. If I right click on Unclack.app and choose "compress", I get a file under 1Mb in size. Does this always happen with DMG files, or is there something weird going…
DMG compression is also optional, so not everyone compresses them. The DMG in this case is clearly not compressed. Compressing the DMG itself results in a file less than a megabyte.
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I love these solutions but none are as easy as "install an app and click a button to turn on." RTX Voice has that locked down. I'd use RNNoise instead if there was a standalone app that just "worked" on my mic input. But here I have to jump through hoops for it to work.
Can you elaborate on what hoops exactly you have to jump through? (genuinely curious, i wrote noisetorch and always looking to improve it)
Assuming the rest of the UX journey is similar (i.e. technically-oriented) compared to Krisp's menubar click-to-activate-mic UX it then becomes less approachable
On a tangent - nice work! That people are even comparing it to RTX Voice is impressive!
This is a god send. What a great little tool. I am constantly being berated by colleagues when I start loudly typing on my mechanical keyboard without thinking...
As well you should be, loud typing is disrespectful and distracting in any environment.
Easy to forget you're not muted on a call and start typing a reply to something else - not trying to suggest anyone is in the wrong other than myself!