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Distil-whisper is incredibly fast. Realtime on a 3060 Ti, and I used it to transcribe an 11 hour audiobook in 9 minutes.
You know, those audiobooks already have transcriptions. Often written by the original author! I kid. Your comment made me think of a shower thought I had recently where I wished my audiobook had subtitles.
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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.
From exploring this segment for a while, I believe that dictation software is the "brick" in the hair-on-fire analogy (hence, it provides some relief, but is far from an actual solution). There is a form of water (scribes on retainer) but it is too expensive for all but the most profitable of specialties. The problem to be solved is not "dictation but better," but "take this cognitive load away from doctors, and keep…
I used this to type an email on my phone, the editing process in particular was very smooth once I realised I had to wait a little bit. You can have ten of my dollars per month.
Thanks! Sorry about the lag, today was slower than normal, but we need to improve latency overall.
Their lead times are long so I’d start establishing trials now, partner with a university on agreement of a discount and use them to develop the software.
Once you’ve got a few uni’s onboard, you can rapidly expand and they are very unlikely to churn as you’re serving such an important niche.
I know a very similar product that has had huge success doing this.
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?
Impressive demo. I noticed a correction that was done retroactively in the demo 'make that H100 GPUs' and noticed that there was only one instance of the token GPU. Hence the correction was seamless. Had there been a couple more instances I guess all GPU tokens would have been replaced by H100 GPUs. I guess you could say make that NVIDIA H100 GPUs that would be more accurate but if there were multiple instances and y…
In the example below I asked it to "make it H100 GPUs" and it only modified the GPU in the list.
Aqua isn't perfect though, and while I think we are mostly solving this case there are plently where we need to do better.
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Hey Team,
I just had a chat with the marketing people, and they confirmed we should buy enough GPUs to meet the demand.
Our Equipment List:
- 1,000 H100 GPUs
- 1,000 processors
- 500 NVME SSDs
- 200 standard racks
edit: formatting
You’re early and this is effectively a demo but just in case this is a blind spot: “token” is an in-the-weeds LLMism that means nothing in the context of transcription. Your costs may be measured in tokens but that’s not relevant to customers. Just “A free trial” with no quantifier would be better than 1k tokens.
Words? Minutes? Number of edits? Eg
Free - try 10 minutes active editing a month, great for trying it out
Light use - 120 minutes a month, perfect for jotting down a few things daily
Pro - 600 minutes a month, write an entire essay by voice
Ultra - unlimited. Make voice editing your main workflow and work 10 times faster
Suggestion for go-to-market: if you haven’t already done so, try to sell this direct to universities. They are an absolute pain to deal with, but they have various obligations to show how they are supporting dyslexic students etc and this fits the bill perfectly. Their lead times are long so I’d start establishing trials now, partner with a university on agreement of a discount and use them to develop the software. O…
This is definitely worth looking into. We don't want to slow down the pace of development, but this might be a case where the partnership makes too much sense.
A huge portion of what goes on in universities is writing.
edit: Reading this back, I thought I sounded too eager to partner with universities. We're a tech company, and quality and performance will always come first.
Congrats on the launch! I absolutely love the idea, as a fellow neurodivergent who works much better over voice than text. My only feedback is... I'd love to run this with more control. I already run LLMs locally (LM Studio), and I can run something like whisper too. I understand that open-sourcing (or even making the source code available) might go against any commercialization attempt. However, there are some optio…