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Re: Show HN: Voiceliner – Capture structured braindumps on the go

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Post by junon »

maxkrieger wrote: post #20
underdeserver wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Android has on-device transcription for some devices (e.g. Pixel 5 and above). Maybe you could use that instead of charging?

EDIT: If you feel strongly about this and think it's possible please send in PRs. Thanks! Unfortunately you then lose ability to play back the original audio https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2319735/voice-recognitio... . This is a major usability tradeoff IMO, though I'm willing to be swayed to add an option. I suspect Google's limiting this because they don't want devices "freeloading" their cloud transcription s…

Can you not buffer the audio and then send the buffer to the transcription service, allowing you to keep the original?

If this were all on-device I'd use this in a heartbeat. I'd even pay for it. I worry about privacy though - I appreciate you went with Azure instead of Google, however!

Re: Show HN: Voiceliner – Capture structured braindumps on the go

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Post by endymi0n »

Was looking for something like this just today. Does it support hands-free operation (or while we're at it, does someone else know something that does)?

This is currently my main criterion. I want something that captures my thoughts while hiking without seeing or touching the screen. Currently dabbling with Siri shortcuts, but they're pretty buggy and lacking.

So if Voiceliner could either support the Shortcuts API and/or switch into a mode that's press-to-record / or start-stop, but somehow works on the connected Airpods only, that would be awesome.

Bonus points for re-reading the transcription to me and very light editing on top (like document switching).

Is there something like that?

Re: Show HN: Voiceliner – Capture structured braindumps on the go

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Post by meesterdude »

endymi0n wrote: post #33

Was looking for something like this just today. Does it support hands-free operation (or while we're at it, does someone else know something that does)? This is currently my main criterion. I want something that captures my thoughts while hiking without seeing or touching the screen . Currently dabbling with Siri shortcuts, but they're pretty buggy and lacking. So if Voiceliner could either support the Shortcuts API…

it's open source - and i can't imagine activating via play/pause would be overly difficult to implement, if it does not already do so.

Re: Show HN: Voiceliner – Capture structured braindumps on the go

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Post by smusamashah »

maxkrieger wrote: post #20
underdeserver wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Android has on-device transcription for some devices (e.g. Pixel 5 and above). Maybe you could use that instead of charging?

EDIT: If you feel strongly about this and think it's possible please send in PRs. Thanks! Unfortunately you then lose ability to play back the original audio https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2319735/voice-recognitio... . This is a major usability tradeoff IMO, though I'm willing to be swayed to add an option. I suspect Google's limiting this because they don't want devices "freeloading" their cloud transcription s…

Not just Pixel 5 and above, you can transcribe in real time with any android phone using Google Recorder app. Which essentially means that it doesn't need special processor (as they marketed for Pixel 6) or the cloud services to transcribe in real time.

App probably loads a model for offline use, I don't know if you could somehow use that app as an API or something.

Same goes for Chrome. You can see live transcript of any audio in Chrome Desktop without internet. That transcript is readonly and cannot be copy pasted even.

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