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

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Post by verdverm »

junon wrote: post #31
maxkrieger wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

You really think Azure and Google Cloud have that much difference? If you use GCP, you can select whether they can also use the data for training, per request. Does Azure have that option or clarity?

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

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Post by ChuckMcM »

Okay, this is super cool. When I started taking walks I found I was thinking through a lot of things but didn't have a way to remember all the things. So I started using the voice transcription notepad (so nice that people these days are less hostile to someone walking down the street mumbling about things :-)). In my case I was stuck taking the document and then re-editing/moving it over to Evernote manually which I didn't always want to do. This looks like it will replace my workflow with a single tool. That is super awesome.

One feature request would be 'activate by airpod tap' so I wouldn't even have to hold my phone, just tap my airpods to make a note.

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

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Post by mynameisvlad »

ccvannorman wrote: post #27

If this had automagical sorting / hierarchy of my recordings based on key words, or allowed me to "shuffle" my entire collection of recordings according to a few pre-set algorithms, this would be interesting. Example: I spend 5 weeks recording 200 sound bites about real estate development in PR. I do no organization. I click a button in the app marked "Organize by opportunity". It sorts my recordings into 4 folders w…

How would any non-domain specific tool (ie a voice recorder app for real estate or even real estate in PR" even know what "opportunity" means.

It could do a loose keyword match but unless you used the words "Tulum" or "Evan" how would it know to link notes together without context on who Evan is?

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

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Post by twobitshifter »

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…

Have you tried using voice control?

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Post by nefitty »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #42

Okay, this is super cool. When I started taking walks I found I was thinking through a lot of things but didn't have a way to remember all the things. So I started using the voice transcription notepad (so nice that people these days are less hostile to someone walking down the street mumbling about things :-)). In my case I was stuck taking the document and then re-editing/moving it over to Evernote manually which I…

Did the transcription work well? I always found myself taking more time editing the text later than the time I saved with dictation.

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Post by glenstein »

Thank you, I was just thinking today that I needed a tool exactly like this.

My go-to brain dumping tool is simple note but it's too much separation between an ephemeral thought and the process of recording it.

Especially clever because I think all the tools to do this have existed for basically as long as Android has existed, but this is a very good application of those tools.

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

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Post by nefitty »

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…

If anyone is curious of a workflow that might work on ios: Settings > Accessibility > Back Tap. You can then assign a Shortcut to run when you tap the back of your phone.

The taps are finicky for me, maybe because of my phone case. I might try them out again and see if it's worth ditching my case.

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

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Post by ccvannorman »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #43
ccvannorman wrote: post #27

If this had automagical sorting / hierarchy of my recordings based on key words, or allowed me to "shuffle" my entire collection of recordings according to a few pre-set algorithms, this would be interesting. Example: I spend 5 weeks recording 200 sound bites about real estate development in PR. I do no organization. I click a button in the app marked "Organize by opportunity". It sorts my recordings into 4 folders w…

How would any non-domain specific tool (ie a voice recorder app for real estate or even real estate in PR" even know what "opportunity" means. It could do a loose keyword match but unless you used the words "Tulum" or "Evan" how would it know to link notes together without context on who Evan is?

If it had 10+ algorithmic shuffling based on keywords, I'd just click the button until it was shuffled somewhere in the domain of "close enough." Then I could reorder the folders myself. Maybe it's counterintuitive, but as a user, having an algorithm shuffle things wrong is actually preferable to me, rather than me starting from a large flat list of arbitrary unlabeled recordings.. (assuming I would not take the time to label each one as I record it).
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