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Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

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Re: Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

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Post by sanchitmonga22 »

nostrebored wrote: post #104
fragmede wrote: post #56

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> I'm not looking for STT->AI->TTS, I'm looking for truly good voice-to-text experience Umm, ah, wait no, uhh yes you are. Unless, hang on, you are possessed with greater umm speech capabilities than most, wait nevermind start over. Unless you never make a mistake while talking, you want AI to take out the "three, wait no four" and just leave the output with "four" from what you actually spoke. Depending on your use…

It’s the TTS layer that is weird. I’m in the same boat — speech out is just a much worse modality than text when possible.

Agreed for a lot of use cases. RCLI supports text-only mode (--no-speak flag or just type in the TUI instead of using push-to-talk). TTS makes sense for hands-free / eyes-free scenarios, but we dont force it.

Re: Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

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Post by catlifeonmars »

coder543 wrote: post #60
fragmede wrote: post #58

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Terrible? It's fine. What's your accent that it's terrible? It even pulls last names from my address book and spells them right.

Terrible relative to everything else that exists today. I have a neutral American accent. Maybe you just don’t know what you’re missing? Google’s default speech to text is still bad compared to Whisper and Parakeet, but even Google’s is markedly better than Apple’s. I cannot think of a single speech to text system that I’ve run into in the past 5 years that is less accurate than the one Apple ships. Sure, Apple’s spe…

> I have a neutral American accent

This is tangential but is _any_ accent objectively neutral?

Re: Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

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Post by coder543 »

catlifeonmars wrote: post #123
coder543 wrote: post #60

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Terrible relative to everything else that exists today. I have a neutral American accent. Maybe you just don’t know what you’re missing? Google’s default speech to text is still bad compared to Whisper and Parakeet, but even Google’s is markedly better than Apple’s. I cannot think of a single speech to text system that I’ve run into in the past 5 years that is less accurate than the one Apple ships. Sure, Apple’s spe…

> I have a neutral American accent This is tangential but is _any_ accent objectively neutral?

Neutral here means not strongly identifiable as any particular regional American accent. Some people have very strong regional accents, some don’t. It is still clearly an American accent, not British or anything else.

Re: Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

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Post by shubham2802 »

neya wrote: post #116
shubham2802 wrote: post #96

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I am pretty sure we don't have balance. It's a bait :)

Sorry, but, this is not really a confidence inspiring response. Accepting the mistake and fixing the leak altogether would have been the better way to handle this. This is a developer forum, we all make mistakes. Framing it as bait just sounds like bad PR management. How can we trust your product if you can't fulfil basic security 101? Not being harsh but this kind of lax response for a serious mistake is not accepta…

I see, sure will fix it asap. Again, thanks for feedback.

Re: Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

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Post by shubham2802 »

neya wrote: post #116
shubham2802 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am pretty sure we don't have balance. It's a bait :)

Sorry, but, this is not really a confidence inspiring response. Accepting the mistake and fixing the leak altogether would have been the better way to handle this. This is a developer forum, we all make mistakes. Framing it as bait just sounds like bad PR management. How can we trust your product if you can't fulfil basic security 101? Not being harsh but this kind of lax response for a serious mistake is not accepta…

my earlier reply was too glib. Even though the key had no usable balance, it still should not have been exposed. We’re removing it now and fixing the demo flow so this doesn’t happen again. Thanks for calling it out. Cheers!

Re: Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

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Post by sanchitmonga22 »

Reebz wrote: post #122

Do you have plans to port your proprietary library MetalRT to mobile devices? These performance gains would be a boon for privacy-centric mobile applications.

Yes, mobile is our primary offering and it is on the roadmap. The same Metal GPU pipeline that powers MetalRT on macOS maps directly to iOS (same Apple Silicon, same Metal API)
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