This is great! I'd love this as a plugin for Obsidian :-)
Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor
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#192This is really nice. I tried it out on the app and wanna start using it more. The only issue stopping me is the privacy policy. I understand why you have to retain the voice data, however, is there any way you can implement an opt-out feature? I’m just not comfortable with my voice data lingering in some servers, ready to be used for training ml models.
How else can it get better?
Money
Re: Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor
#193Super cool and I'm excited to try it out more as I also prefer voice to typing.
I'm think I'm having trouble getting it to edit the existing text when writing though? https://i.imgur.com/IfoWvMG.png
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#194Well done! Without context I was a bit confused regarding the usability given the speed of the models (which of course can and will be improved), but given your story I'm sold and sure this will help a lot of people.
More input modalities are IMO always better, and being able to switch to this in the future when your fingers get tired would be awesome, my key painpoint from the demo is the speed, but I'm sure that will go up as models and inference speed gets better.
One awesome thing would be to integrate the contextual understanding with a programming copilot, so you can pair program with only your voice as input.
Rooting for you guys!
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#195Nice demo, I like this.
Will this work for programming languages? I often would like to type code by talking and especially, to talk into AI coding tools that help you complete code.
Will this allow me to add links to text based on context? Like "Go to /blog and link to the article on Voice AI" - I do this quite a lot in my article writing.
Will this work over the sound of me cooking a loud fry up?
Take all 3 and I may never leave the kitchen again.
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#196Super cool and I'm excited to try it out more as I also prefer voice to typing. I'm think I'm having trouble getting it to edit the existing text when writing though? https://i.imgur.com/IfoWvMG.png
Yikes! I think we may have normal mode a bit too conservative at the moment. We've got a lot more tuning to do.
One thing you can try if Aqua doesn't seem to be "getting" what you're after is to say something like "make this the email," or "transform this into the email I want to write." Sometimes it needs an extra push.
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#197This is so cool! Great work. I'm writing this comment using Aqua Voice, and it's very impressive. I've been waiting for something like this. As a neurodivergent person, certain tasks (cough, email, cough) are about 10 times harder sitting down at my computer than they are handling them aloud with my assistant. I'm sure you get this feedback 100 times a day, but I'd gladly pay a substantial amount to use this in place…
Two more small pieces of feedback, in case they're useful:
- Consider a time-based free trial. As others have said, tokens are confusing, but also your model is unlimited so the chunk of tokens doesn't allow me to see what it might be like to actually use your product. I'm more than halfway through my tokens after writing an HN comment and a brief todo list for work, so I've been able to see what it'd be like to pay the $10 for about 5 minutes worth of work, which feels like a very short trial. A week, say, seems fair? And then you have some kind of cap on tokens that only comes up if someone uses an abusively huge amount (an issue, I'm sure, you'd face with paying customers too, right?)
- I had a bit of trouble with making a todo list—I kept wanting the system to do a "new line" or "next item" and show me a new line with a dash so I know I'm dictating to the right place, but I couldn't coax it into doing that for me. I had to sort of just start on the next item and then use my keyboard to push return. When making lists, it's good to be able to do so fluidly and intentionally as much as possible. Sometimes it did figure out, impressively, that long pauses meant I wanted a new line. But not always.
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#198Well done! Without context I was a bit confused regarding the usability given the speed of the models (which of course can and will be improved), but given your story I'm sold and sure this will help a lot of people. More input modalities are IMO always better, and being able to switch to this in the future when your fingers get tired would be awesome, my key painpoint from the demo is the speed, but I'm sure that wi…
Thank you. 100% I'm with you on speed.
I think we will be in a much better place speed-wise in a few months; some of that will be our stack, and some of that is what is happening lower down in the stack, but it will be meaningfully faster and more responsive soon.
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#199This is incredible, I said go back and swap one word with another, and it did it, this has blew my mind, I've not been able to do that before.
I'm a heavy voice dictation user, and I would switch to this in a heartbeat. I'll tell you why this is so impressive, it means you can make mistakes and correct them with voice, it takes away the overhead of preparing a sentence in your mind before saying it, one of the hardest things about voice dictation.
I often have my shoulder in pain, and I have to reach for my mouse to change a word, I would not if I used this. This software would literally prevent me pain.
However, I cannot use it without a privacy policy. I have to know where the recording of my voice is being saved, if it's being saved, and what is it going to be used for.
I would pay extra for my voice to be entirely deleted and not used afterwards, that could even be an upsell part of your packages. Extra $5 to never save your voice or data.
I love it, but I can't use it for most things without a privacy policy.
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#200Infinite details to remark on, but, NO NOTES. This is the sort of the thing that I forward to people who are skeptical about the disruptive capacity AI has, to take long-standing seemingly intractable problems, and "solve" them. Hats off. Truly inspiring in many senses!
Thank you very much. I can't say how much these comments motivate us.
When I was a kid I saw tech as a really aspirational thing (jobs, iPod, touch screens, Skyrim). What can be done with modern GPUs and transformers is making me feel like that again.