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Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows

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Re: Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows

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Interesting! A nice open-source alternative is VoiceInk, check it out: https://github.com/Beingpax/VoiceInk do you also plan to open-source part of your platform?

I just tried it on a M4 Max MacBook Pro. When you have such a processor, it seems to be even faster than Aqua Voice 2, does more, optional supports open router AND is open source? Thank you so much for the recommendation!

And it processes stuff locally on your device!

Re: Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows

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Hey guys, great idea! Most of the apps already have voice recognition. Do you think about serving a niche where this feature is not existing? Also, the data protection part is unclear to me, I don't want everything uploaded to a cloud where I don't know what is happening with it.

Re: Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows

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Feedback: I use MacWhisper and Tiny wisperkit model (english only) is way faster than any cloud service on my M1 macbook pro. I’d say local is necessary for delightful product experience and the added bonus is that it ticks the privacy box

How much ram is in your m1?

16gb

Re: Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows

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You’re real market you need to go hard on is the assistive tech market. You know the biggest companies in this space are those solving problems for dyslexia where govt grants in eg UK fund pretty much all their work? I had an access to work assessment and they recommend like sweets stuff from texthelp. It’s then paid for by the government following these assessments. But it’s crap. It literally is a crap tool for adh…

yes I really hope a lot of these ML startups check out the history of ML tech a bit more because so many accessibility tools are built via ML but theyve been abandoned

Re: Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows

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Product/UI looks good. Nice job. I would pay for a completely offline version of this, cloud voice data is non-starter for me though unfortunately

Check out MacWhisper which is one time payment and does this among many other things.

Re: Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows

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Interesting! A nice open-source alternative is VoiceInk, check it out: https://github.com/Beingpax/VoiceInk do you also plan to open-source part of your platform?

I just tried it on a M4 Max MacBook Pro. When you have such a processor, it seems to be even faster than Aqua Voice 2, does more, optional supports open router AND is open source? Thank you so much for the recommendation!

>it seems to be even faster >runs locally

This is obviously a lie. If this was true, all the inference provider companies would go to zero. I support open-source as much as the next guy here, but it's obvious that the local version will be slower or break more often. Like, come on guys. Be real.

To illustrate this, M4 Max chips do 38 TOPS in FP8. An NVIDIA H100 does 4,000 TOPS.

Prakash if you're going to bot our replies, at least make it believable.

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