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Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor

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Re: Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor

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Post by Tistron »

Cool product. I signed up.

I wish there was a clear way of sending you feedback though, there are some details that annoy me a lot.

I'm transcribing some recorded sound, and after I have had it transcribed and I am editing it, every time I tab away from the browser the cursor position gets lost. The focus on the textarea is also lost, and when I click it, it doesn't insert the cursor where I click but at the start of the document so I even loose my scroll position.

As a paying customer I'd hope to have a way to give you this kind of feedback. It should be fairly easy to make this a much better experience.

Really cool product all in all though! I don't often subscribe to stuff.

Re: Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor

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Post by throwaway4aday »

As many others have noted, once you've got everything stable (and hopefully profitable) you should seriously explore a way to use this as input into any text field in any program. Microsoft is actively experimenting with something similar in Copilot Voice although theirs is very integrated with the editor and specialized for code. It would be great to have these types of voice interfaces in all software. Maybe you could look at providing a way to integrate with your system through an API so others could do the heavy lifting of creating a native experience for each app?

Absolutely amazing product by the way! The 1000 free tokens is enough, the fact that people are complaining about running out too soon is good, it shows that they like the product and want to use it more. They do have a point about adding a rough word count, maybe just a subheading that says "on average, X spoken words".

Re: Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor

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Post by gleb »

the_king wrote: post #157
gleb wrote: post #92

Tried it. Seemed quite impressive. Two issues: - it consistently uses word two instead of to - forcing Google OAuth as the only way to sign up is not a good idea. That prevented me from signing up.

Did you wait for the text to turn blue and then black? And were the twos still wrong then? The real-time text is non-final tokens and has many more errors than what is ultimately committed to the document (but committing is slower than we'd like at the moment).

Yes I did. I even later tried to tell it to fix this, and was not successful.

Re: Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor

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Post by C-Loftus »

Nice work. I am very involved in the Talon community and it is cool to see other projects tackling voice interaction from different perspectives.

I develop a very similar natural language voice interaction tool using the OpenAI API and Talon as the engine[0]. (i.e you apply any voice command transformation with AI on any text, or use it alongside Cursorless for semantically targeting scopes in the AST) You can use my solution with offline LLM models too.

If you are interested in chatting, please reach out[1], as I am very interested and experienced in this space.

[0] https://github.com/c-loftus/talon-ai-tools

[1] https://colton.bio/contact/

Re: Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor

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Post by Onawa »

Just thought I'd let you know about this event that popped up in my inbox that I think you should definitely attend.

2024 Bridge2A Voice Symposium | Voice as a Biomarker of Health

https://www.eventsquid.com/event.cfm?id=22807

The 2024 Voice AI Symposium will be a groundbreaking 2-day event and unique opportunity to connect with stakeholders invested in artificial intelligence and voice biomarkers. This year's symposium will serve as a nexus for dialogue, collaboration, awareness, and engagement across diverse sectors and members of the community about the use voice of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Attendees will experience dynamic speakers, panels, and networking opportunities. Innovative interactive events include a Call for Science with 3 submission categories, a Voice AI Tech Fair, and a patient challenge competition.

Re: Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor

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Post by musiciangames »

zigzag312 wrote: post #212
musiciangames wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of my favourite nitpicks, but IMO 7x fewer errors means -6 times the error rate. Maybe error rate reduced by 86%.

Isn't it just errors_count/7? (errors_count * 1/7) For example, if you got 70 errors before you now get only 10 errors.

7 times 70 =490. 490 fewer than 70 is -420. But words mean what you want them to mean, so 7 times fewer to mean 1/7th is becoming commonplace.

(edited because formatting swallowed asterisk for times)

Re: Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor

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Post by user_7832 »

rrr_oh_man wrote: post #190
user_7832 wrote: post #23

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…

So… what do you want?

Ideally, some way to run this locally on my own machine. That would offer more power (and also allow the product at a lower/no cost without any demands on their servers). Are you from the Aqua Voice team by the way?
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