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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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Thanks! We're faster, more accurate, and have a streaming option. Aqua can go from key-up to paste in as little as 450ms. Flow was closer to 1000 in our tests. Overall, you'll notice we make a few more tweaks to the output than Wisprflow. For example, Aqua + Cursor is very powerful - we syntax highlight your transcript. The easiest way to see this is to use streaming mode (double press Fn) + deep context + cursor and…

Thanks! I'm tempted to try Speech to Text + Cursor/Copilot for development. It's probably the future since most people can speak faster than they can type.

This use case is great, even for people who haven't been interested in dictation before

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've been using this one with Cursor the past few months...

https://github.com/foges/whisper-dictation

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

#24
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 adhd or dyslexia because these users literally CANT remember or deal with barriers like learning how to dictate correctly. Aqua voice solves this. I’m your biggest fan. I recommend it in my AT assessments all the time :)

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

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I’ve been using this for some time and I have to say it is fantastic. I’m intentionally not writing this with Aqua but by hand and it is taking so much longer. This to me feels like what Apple Intelligence could be, it is so much better than stuff all of the big tech is doing. For example, if you tell Siri voice dictation to go back and delete something what Siri will do is just write out “go back and delete something“ also if you tell Siri to go back and spell a name differently all Siri will do is write out the letters that you said to go back and type out. Honestly, for voice dictation software it feels like travelling to another planet in terms of improvement.

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

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How does it compare to https://wisprflow.ai ? btw, grats!

Thanks! We're faster, more accurate, and have a streaming option. Aqua can go from key-up to paste in as little as 450ms. Flow was closer to 1000 in our tests. Overall, you'll notice we make a few more tweaks to the output than Wisprflow. For example, Aqua + Cursor is very powerful - we syntax highlight your transcript. The easiest way to see this is to use streaming mode (double press Fn) + deep context + cursor and…

Hey, love the what you are building in this category. I've been using a competing product which you know very well about. They advertised about how you can improve your work per minute by dictation, which was the main draw for me because I do a founder. There's a lot of managerial work that I'm doing.

It has been a godsend in terms of increasing my productivity because I no longer have to type. I think your product's accuracy and latency shortening just make this even better. I often use it and then find out, "Hey, I need to make some changes," and I need to re-edit some of the stuff, which reduces the WPM productivity amount. So I think accuracy is definitely key here. Key metric to differentiate a product.

I am pushing this to other colleagues to get them to adopt. One challenge people are saying is that. One is that some people may not be as organized (you know, they might be a lot more organizationally structured in their mind). So for them, they're having trouble - they'd like to write things out, and by the time if things go out of their mouth, you know it's already formulated logical thought. Whereas you know people like me are a lot more verbal vomit type of person. For me it's huge because I say a lot of um like in all the other things I just dump stuff out and then organize it later.

Whereas other people organize stuff in their brain and then dump the information out. So people who do a lot of coordination and just you know so I feel like this could be two different segments to take into account.

Another one that's been fantastic is that we have multilingual colleagues who are speaking in Mandarin or something else and then they speak it and then ask Flow to be sent to translate it to a different language. That part I think has been fantastic.

I think the ability to edit what you wrote with AI is going to be the next key feature. Providing the context in the window is all wiithin the conversation right? For example, you just ask after because what you write out is not the final and you need to do a lot of editing and formatting. Sometimes when you say too much stuff, it's just like a huge jumble paragraph with a lot of fluff words. Make it clear, concise, trim non-effective words. I think those are a key feature because it's not about your productivity, it's about other people being able to ingest your information efficiently. At least that's what I look at from a managerial perspective.

To give you an example, everything I laid out above came from dictation. You can see how this is inefficient. There's a lot of inefficiencies here.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! We're faster, more accurate, and have a streaming option. Aqua can go from key-up to paste in as little as 450ms. Flow was closer to 1000 in our tests. Overall, you'll notice we make a few more tweaks to the output than Wisprflow. For example, Aqua + Cursor is very powerful - we syntax highlight your transcript. The easiest way to see this is to use streaming mode (double press Fn) + deep context + cursor and…

Hey, love the what you are building in this category. I've been using a competing product which you know very well about. They advertised about how you can improve your work per minute by dictation, which was the main draw for me because I do a founder. There's a lot of managerial work that I'm doing. It has been a godsend in terms of increasing my productivity because I no longer have to type. I think your product's…

A feature that would be great is similar to how you can write snippets in all the other tools where you can say "calendar" or "cal" and then it gives you the link. If this is something possible, I think that would make this fantastic.

Another feature that would be great is actually being able to have a conversation with an AI model first and then refine the output iteratively until you're ready and then pipe all that over. The ability to have a chat is very good or do this all through voice.

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

#30

This looks like it'll slurp up all your data and upload it into a cloud. Thanks, no. I want privacy, offline mode and source code for something as crucial to system security as an input method. "we also collect and process your voice inputs [..] We leverage this data for improvements and development [..] Sharing of your information [..] service providers [..] OpenAI" https://withaqua.com/privacy

This should be on the FAQ. I was trying to find out if it was 100% processed locally.
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