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Re: Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor

#101
post #56

You don't say so explicitly, but it'd be good to know what data goes to the cloud - I presume all of it including speech recordings? Or is STT on device? Also what your privacy / retention policies are around this data. Excellent demo and great-looking product btw!

I just spent 10 seconds trying it. It was able to interpret my intentions and parse out commands from the literal transcription. "bazinga but in all caps and with a j" became "BAZINJA". So at the minimum, it's going through an LLM in the league of llama, which if run locally in browser is slow as molasses on my ancient MacBook. So it's definitely going to the cloud. As a rule of thumb, you should just assume any webs…

That’s a hilarious over assumption but point taken

Also I really enjoyed your analysis

Re: Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor

#102
post #54

I developed an RSI-related injury back in 94/95 and have been using speech recognition ever since. I would love a solution that would let me move off of Windows. I would love a solution allowing me to easily dictate text areas in Firefox, Thunderbird, or VS code. Most important, however, would be the ability to edit/manipulate the text using what Nuance used to call Select-and-Say. The ability to do minor edits, repl…

> when the Bakers ran Dragon Systems For those who don't know what happened next, and why Dragon seem to stagnant so much in the aughts, the story about how Goldman Sachs helped them sell to essentially Belgian Enron, months before they collapsed, was quite illuminating to me, and sad. https://archive.ph/Zck6i

Goldman Sachs is such a wonderful model of what is possible via Capitalism. I think they are holding on what they really could achieve with a little will.

Re: Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor

#103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how many ideas this inspired! I just want to qualify - you did not inspire these ideas. These are desires sought which have been there for eons... You are not inspiring them You have atool that ENABLES them. Seek that which already is a flustered pop of ideas waiting for a release valve for such thought. You are not inspiring - you are enabling that which is already there, think of it as which valve to open - the pre…

that's a better way to put it!

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Re: Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor

#106
Train this model on this:

>>Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

>>Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

>>Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes, and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Solar, mica, war and far; One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German, wind and mind, Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

>>Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward. And your pronunciation's OK When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live.

>>Ivy, privy, famous; clamour And enamour rhyme with hammer. River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and roll and some and home. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangour. Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

>>Query does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. Though the differences seem little, We say actual but victual. Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific.

>>Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed. Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover; Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label.*

>>Petal, panel, and canal, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor. Tour, but our and succour, four. Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

>>Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion and battalion. Sally with ally, yea, ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. Say aver, but ever, fever, Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. Heron, granary, canary. Crevice and device and aerie.

>>Face, but preface, not efface. Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. Large, but target, gin, give, verging, Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. Ear, but earn and wear and tear Do not rhyme with here but ere. Seven is right, but so is even, Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

>>Pronunciation — think of Psyche! Is a paling stout and spikey? Won't it make you lose your wits, Writing groats and saying grits? It's a dark abyss or tunnel: Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, Islington and Isle of Wight, Housewife, verdict and indict.

>>Finally, which rhymes with enough — Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? Hiccough has the sound of cup. My advice is to give up!!!

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I dont have the energy to defend a F up -- but there is a LOT of really cool development happening on HN... from AI to all sorts of SHOW and ASK and a just F-TON of keeping track.

Iam not an OCD content influencuer focused type...

But know --

the VELOCITY of thought that is flowing through HN and human conscious as excelleratated by our tipping-the-cup on AI is having IRL consequences on both mentality and reality....

If there is a community for a higher velocity firehose of where we are going share it.

So - we are sprewing a firehose of ideas into the quantum future, as unknown-boomerangs

The truth is to understand the boomerangs...

( to de-vague-lize this: Tesla:

Pre compute an AI token. 3:6:9

This token is a prime reflection of that.

Re: Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor

#107

My child is profoundly dyslexic. This kind of tool is a game-changer for him.

Hope this can be helpful. We know there are still many kinks to iron out.

On another note, I think once you leave school dyslexia can become a wash or even a net positive in the right setting. I think whatever the brain config is can be a huge unlock for creative thinking - it's not always super helpful in the school context, but can be really asymmetric in tech and probably other industries.

Re: Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor

#110

Train this model on this: >> Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. >> Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter,…

lol based, we'll do
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