How soon can I use this to write code?
Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor
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#202The video demo is sooo slow. Seems like I would type it faster
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#203Suggestion 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…
Great idea. 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.
Working with universities won't slow your pace of development, because you can work directly with users on that.
But go-to-market, after the initial delay, uni's will drive sales fast at scale.
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It really is a little absurd IMO that the text of the book is sold separately from the audio.
Book publishing industry is different from audio recording industry.
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#205Suggestion 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…
I'm surprised that universities have to consider dyslexic students. When I went to university, I was basically told to figure it out. "It's your problem after elementary school. nobody cares."
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#206I've just subscribed! Congratulations for this well crafted, immediately useful tool. It's something I was already looking for.
Some Feature Requests:
- Please implement proper undo/redo history and allow us to use it with voice, GUI and keyboard.
- When I take over with keyboard, do not mess while I'm writing.
- When I start speaking, if the text cursor is in between words, I'd expect it to insert, not append. (if you want to avoid this from happening accidentally, after some idle time, you may move cursor to end of the text)
- A little advanced feature; It would be very nice to have some form of tagging for sentences and/or paragraphs with numbers, text or colors. So it would be easier to delete, reorganize, move around them by saying like "move the green section before purple one" or "part 12 should go before part 4", then we can let the language model to do it's magic and rephrase/reformat it a bit. Your AI probably smart enough to understand which sentence we are referring to by just hearing part of it, but as a user we may feel too lazy for that.
- Add a cheat-sheet for what's possible next to editor. Something more succinct than the notion doc.
- Allow pausing/resuming dictation with voice command.
Note: I would really like to be able to benefit from its smart features while I'm not sitting in front of my computer or holding my phone. But I'm not sure there will be a day when Apple let us interface with smarter AI agents like ChatGPT or Aqua Voice on iOS while the screen is locked. IMO, this is gatekeeping of an inferior feature (Siri) in the name of protecting my privacy. I hope some day EU will also intervene with that.
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#207This 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…
I was wondering whether the table actually comes from some paper, or it's just a marketing trick for techy folks.
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#208I 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…
Deepgram has been incredibly accurate for me.
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#209That looks amazing, congrats!
Minor friendly heads up, the withaqua.com link in the description of your youtube video is currently not a link.
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#210I 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…
> 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
That's only the intro. Here's the conclusion: https://www.cornerstone.com/insights/cases/janet-baker-v-gol...
> Professor Gompers opined that at the time the acquisition closed, Dragon was a troubled company that was losing money and had regularly missed its own financial projections. It was highly uncertain whether Dragon could survive as a stand-alone entity. Professor Gompers also showed that technology stocks were on a downward trend, and L&H was the only buyer willing to pay the steep price Dragon demanded. Thus, he concluded that if the company had not accepted the L&H deal, Dragon likely would have declared bankruptcy. The jury found in favor of the defendants and awarded no damages to the plaintiffs.