Love this app, love the story and everyone being so supportive is making my day! Hope you guys go all the way!
Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor
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#142After watching the video demo and logging in, I was able to compose and edit text easily. Nice job. My own use case is a bit different from many others who have commented here. I'm a reasonably fast typist and don't currently have any physical or neurological issues that might make typing difficult. I have tried voice input methods a number of times over the years, as I thought speaking would be faster than typing, b…
I don't think there is genuine use cases to this except for accessibility features etc.
I always doubted voice; however, I'm beginning to see that Oai Voice Engine will potentially be huge and incredibly addicting to chat to. I.e. it's more interesting to confide in a human sounding 'friend' that vanilla ChatGPT with keyboards.
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#143This is excellent and very impressive. Have you thought about offering this as an API? I'd bet there are lots of startups that want to easily integrate better speech-to-text for conversational AI (e.g. word correction, adding punctuation, etc), and would pay you for the service.
(Personally, I would! Email me at matt@syntheticdreamlabs.com if you're interested in offering it as an API, I'd be pretty curious about pricing.)
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#144Since voice-to-text has gotten so good I've used it a lot more and also noticed how distracting and confusing it can be. Using Apple's dictation has a similar feel to this where you're constantly seeing something that's changing on the screen. It's kind of irritating and I don't really know what the solution is. One suggestion I have here is to have at least two different sections of the UI. One part would be the act…
Distil-whisper is incredibly fast. Realtime on a 3060 Ti, and I used it to transcribe an 11 hour audiobook in 9 minutes.
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#145Impressive to see the total lack of response for "umm" and "ahh" filler sounds (in the text editing area), it does seem to recognize them for what they are. Also the rest of it seems valuable, especially the formatting abilities.
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#146Since voice-to-text has gotten so good I've used it a lot more and also noticed how distracting and confusing it can be. Using Apple's dictation has a similar feel to this where you're constantly seeing something that's changing on the screen. It's kind of irritating and I don't really know what the solution is. One suggestion I have here is to have at least two different sections of the UI. One part would be the act…
Not trying to hijack this. Great demo! But STT can be very much real-time now. Try SoundHound's transcription service available through the Houndify platform [0] (we really don't market this well enough). It's lightning fast and it's half of what powers the Dynamic Interaction demos that we've been putting out.
I actually made a demo just like this aqua voice internally (unfortunately didn't get prioritized) but there is really no lag. However it will always be the case where the model will want to "revisit" transcribed words based on what comes next. So if you want the best accuracy you do want to wait a sec or two for the transcription to settle down a bit.
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#147This is super impressive!
I am really looking forward to the day when dictation like this can be done locally on our phones. I'd really like to do a lot of my basic messaging with my voice but the need to do corrections with that tiny keyboard means it's not much of a time saver.
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#148No way, I was literally mulling over the exact idea of voice-driven text editing (focused towards programming), using a mix of voice commands and usual speech to text. This is really exciting to see!
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#149Nice work and congratulations on the launch! It’s awesome when a project works as expected/assumed. I immediately started using it to build my packing list for my upcoming weekend away.
Three suggestions:
1. If I try the demo on the landing page, and then sign up, I wanted it to automatically have the contents from my demo usage on the landing page copied into my newly created account.
2. I would like another option than an auto renewing subscription. If I could have loaded 5$ or 10$ that my usage would deduct from, instead of having to subscribe, I would have paid money right then and there, but I didn’t because I have too many damn subscriptions (alternative is to offer a non auto renew $10 one month trial).
3. iOS app please :)
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#150I 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…
I always felt coding could be such a great fit for voice recognition, as you have a limited number of tokens in scope and know all the syntax in advance (so recognition accuracy should be pretty good). Never saw a solution that really capitalized on that, though.