This is awesome, will likely subscribe--just need to pare down some of my other subscriptions--there are too many tempting AI products lately.
Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor
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#122This looks very sick!
any chance of getting this as native apps on mobile? or better yet like global macos utility like dictation so you can "type" in any apps?
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#123This is cool! Some feedback: - As others have said, "1000 tokens" doesn't mean anything to non-technical users and barely means anything to me. Just tell me how many words I can dictate! - That serif-font LaTeX error rate table is also way too boring. People want something flashy: "Up to 7x fewer errors than macOS dictation" is cool, a comparison table is not. - Similarly, ".05 Word Error Rate" has to go. Spell out w…
> People want something flashy: "Up to 7x fewer errors than macOS dictation" is cool, a comparison table is not.
Respectfully disagree on this one: as a startup, you can't effectively compete with the likes of Apple on flashiness. However, the very target market of those dictating large amounts of text will include a significant number of people in academia themselves. For those people, Aqua Voice will feel relevant. Those who aren't interested in comparison tables will simply skip over them :)
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#124I've wanted something like this for data entry for a while now. I often find my hands full measuring things and need to take notes. Can this output/format tabular data?
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#125I've wanted something like this for data entry for a while now. I often find my hands full measuring things and need to take notes. Can this output/format tabular data?
I don't think it would perform too well in tabular contexts, at least with just natural language, for reasons I've explored in one of my own projects [https://github.com/AmberSahdev/Open-Interface/?tab=readme-ov...].
That said, I would still think it's very doable to set reserved keywords to navigate it ourselves while keeping it conversational.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Down voters: sarcasm alert!
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#127As others have said, good job.
This seems like it would be particularly good on a telephone or my watch. In those places it seems like a real game changer in terms of ability to take notes when the keyboard experience is less than awesome.
Have you tried using it to write code? This could be amazing as a IDE/text editor plugin.
It's nice to see someone do something that's not regrettable with AI. So many of the applications we see are horrible. What you've made is brilliant and very far from being just another cursed chocolate factory experience.
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#128I use Apple dictation heavily for transcribing interviews. I've tried all the voice-to-text services out there and none have been reliable enough *at transcribing an audio file. I've settled on playing audio in my headphones and pausing while I carefully dictate text into a document. If I could upload the audio file, get a first-pass transcription, and then go through and edit / make corrections with voice, that woul…
Have you tried using Whisper from OpenAI ? Aiko [0] have Whisper-v2-large built-in and allow for transcription of audio file [0] https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/aiko/id1672085276
This is amazing. Just tried really mumbling a long for a while and it got every word.
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#129I've wanted something like this for data entry for a while now. I often find my hands full measuring things and need to take notes. Can this output/format tabular data?
When I was playing around with the demo, I gave it a list of things to do and then asked it to convert the list to a markdown table and label the second column estimated duration. It worked like a charm. It set the first column heading to "Description" even.
I was then able to go through my list very quickly and add times to each item.
The one failure I had was when I asked it to add whitespace to visually align the table columns.
The table was, however, converted back into a list when I asked it to turn the text into an email.
It's not exactly punching numbers into a spreadsheet, but it worked pretty well for the simple use case I tried.
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#130Train 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,…
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