This is very well done!!
Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor
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#12What are your opinions on https://github.com/cursorless-dev/cursorless ? Are you targeting developers? My understanding was people who are serious about developing via voice use it pretty exclusively. Like, yeah you need to learn commands, but "are often not worth it" feels like brushing a pretty massive offering under the rug. Is learning vi / emacs commands not worth it (or shortcuts in another IDE?) Is there a mid…
Cursorless is really cool, but we see the ideal computer-voice interaction a little differently.
Our approach is based around understanding intent from speech alone. We think this will be the ideal division of labor between man and machine going forward - let the person think and the machine fit it into the document/file/text. Over time we think this will reduce the number of commands you have to learn to use it to zero.
But our "command-less" approach isn't reliable for every use case yet - and as a fan of voice interfaces I am rooting for Cursorless - it's super sci-fi.
Re: Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor
#13You’re early and this is effectively a demo but just in case this is a blind spot: “token” is an in-the-weeds LLMism that means nothing in the context of transcription. Your costs may be measured in tokens but that’s not relevant to customers. Just “A free trial” with no quantifier would be better than 1k tokens.
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#14Trying out the app on Firefox gets me this error: NotSupportedError: AudioContext.createMediaStreamSource: Connecting AudioNodes from AudioContexts with different sample-rate is currently not supported. I would add that this really needs to be a native app with ability to use it within Microsoft Word, which itself has a decent voice to text tool built in.
Sorry about the Firefox error! Agreed on the sentiment behind native app — we plan to get Aqua in as many places as possible asap. For product iteration, you can’t beat the speed the browser affords.
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#15the signup just failed for me. the console was logging out the token... you might want to fix that
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#16This is really great. I imagined such a thing should be created, amazing to see it in reality. It would be great for those of us not limited to exclusively voice to be able to use commands as well, as I still think in some cases doing explicitly what I want for simple things is easier than figuring out how to explain it :)
We agree totally; voice only can be ridiculous, for example, if you're spelling out a username or something.
The sandbox doesn't have typing, but the full app does - you can switch between typing and talking seamlessly there.
(written with Aqua)
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#17I have neuropathy in my arms, so this is something I'm very interested in!
Do I have to use a specific Aqua Voice text editor, or can I use it in apps like JetBrains Rider and Visual Studio Code? If so, are there some kind of plugins that would allow using IDE-specific features? (e.g. "build and run the API project")
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#18This was such a well executed demo. A few seconds in and I'm seeing the value. The core of the product is fully explained in just 36 seconds.
It's less about how quickly all that transpires and more about presenting the product in a way that doesn't require a lot of talking around it. Well done.
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#19Trying out the app on Firefox gets me this error: NotSupportedError: AudioContext.createMediaStreamSource: Connecting AudioNodes from AudioContexts with different sample-rate is currently not supported. I would add that this really needs to be a native app with ability to use it within Microsoft Word, which itself has a decent voice to text tool built in.
Sorry about the Firefox error! Agreed on the sentiment behind native app — we plan to get Aqua in as many places as possible asap. For product iteration, you can’t beat the speed the browser affords.
Make an Electron app that simply wraps your website! Just build in best-practices updating of the wrapper as well from day one, in case you want to ship improvements to the wrapper or start to move more things to client side processing.
As a side benefit, you get real estate in people’s docks and desktops :)
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#20This is really great. I was hoping someone would build this: https://bprp.xyz/__site/Looking+for+Collaborators/Better+Loc...
I would really happily pay $10 / month for this, but what I really want is either: - A Raycast plugin or Desktop app that lets this interact with any editable text area in my environment - An API that I can pass existing text / context + audio stream to and get back a heartbeat of full document updates. Then, the community can build Obsidian/VSCode/browser plugins for the huge surface area of text entry
Going to give you $10 later this afternoon regardless, and congrats!