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

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#111
Congratulations on an interesting project. There is a lost opportunity with your natural language only approach. The issue is natural language will never be efficient as an interface. Natural language helps with low domain knowledge. That's the plus side as it allows the end user to say a variety of phrases to get the desired result. Commands allow for surgical precision and efficiency/less voice strain for its end user. So there needs to be an approach that allows for both elements natural language and commands. As users develop their own process and workflow they will create actions as commands. (high domain knowledge)

Since these commands are self created by the end user they remember them for their specific purposes. These often are high frequency of use commands where low use would still leverage large language model. You have an opportunity here to leverage this workflow. Being able to create commands with large language model is not something many projects have explored.

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

#114

Dictation software is huge in the healthcare industry. Every doctor uses it, and a solution like yours could likely make their work much more efficient. Have you explored this market segment?

Why do doctors use it?

Not OP but a big part of a doctor's job is clinical notes. Typing is slow, talking is fast. Less time spent taking notes == more time with patient.

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

#118
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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…

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It’s crazy to me they were helped by what were essentially boys right out of college, and they had any faith it would work…

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

#120
post #93

I tried it in Firefox on my Android and got this error when I tried to use the demo: "Error: NotSupportedError: AudioContext.createMediaStreamSource: Connecting AudioNodes from AudioContexts with different sample-rate is currently not supported."

This is fixed!
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