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

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Post by zigzag312 »

musiciangames wrote: post #228
zigzag312 wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Is there any case where your interpretation makes sense? Would you ever say 0.86 times fewer instead of 0.86 of the size?

If new is 1/7 the size of the old, then 7 * new = old. It takes 7 times of new_count to get the value of old_count. 1/7th of the old_count. 7x fewer seems like a shorthand, but I'm not a native English speaker.

  x times != x times fewer
7 times => multiply

7 times fewer => multiply by fraction

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

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Post by djbusby »

musiciangames wrote: post #228
zigzag312 wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Gotta put a back-whack in like \* for *

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

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Post by musiciangames »

zigzag312 wrote: post #231
musiciangames wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Is there any case where your interpretation makes sense? Would you ever say 0.86 times fewer instead of 0.86 of the size? If new is 1/7 the size of the old , then 7 * new = old. It takes 7 times of new_count to get the value of old_count. 1/7th of the old_count. 7x fewer seems like a shorthand, but I'm not a native English speaker. x times != x times fewer 7 times => multiply 7 times fewer => multiply by fraction

I would never say times fewer, because it is ambiguous.

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

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Post by jmcintire1 »

Onawa wrote: post #227

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 symposi…

Great recommendation, thanks for sharing!

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

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Post by zigzag312 »

musiciangames wrote: post #234
zigzag312 wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there any case where your interpretation makes sense? Would you ever say 0.86 times fewer instead of 0.86 of the size? If new is 1/7 the size of the old , then 7 * new = old. It takes 7 times of new_count to get the value of old_count. 1/7th of the old_count. 7x fewer seems like a shorthand, but I'm not a native English speaker. x times != x times fewer 7 times => multiply 7 times fewer => multiply by fraction

I would never say times fewer, because it is ambiguous.

When value is above 1, it's not really ambiguous anymore as only one interpretation makes sense. But I understand that it could still be incorrect, if it's not well defined term in English.

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

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Post by jmcintire1 »

Tistron wrote: post #221

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…

Absolutely, and sorry for the UX annoyances. We'll add a way to quickly share this kind of thing from within the app.

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

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Post by musiciangames »

zigzag312 wrote: post #236
musiciangames wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would never say times fewer, because it is ambiguous.

When value is above 1, it's not really ambiguous anymore as only one interpretation makes sense. But I understand that it could still be incorrect, if it's not well defined term in English.

You choose an interesting case at 1. What does 1 times less errors mean? To me it means no errors.

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

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Post by reissbaker »

jmcintire1 wrote: post #174
reissbaker wrote: post #143

This 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 pri…

We have thought about this: there are some boring reasons that it doesn't make sense to do right now but I would definitely be interested in learning about your use case and keeping you posted if and when we decide to do it!

For sure! Email me if you want to chat more :)

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

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Post by zigzag312 »

musiciangames wrote: post #238
zigzag312 wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When value is above 1, it's not really ambiguous anymore as only one interpretation makes sense. But I understand that it could still be incorrect, if it's not well defined term in English.

You choose an interesting case at 1. What does 1 times less errors mean? To me it means no errors.

It's ambiguous as it's not above or below 1 :)
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