this needs to be built into the OS - you should talk to apple and make some money before its built into the OS
Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor
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#242This is awesome!!! I'm really impressed with the demo. In particular, with how fast it seems to work given the number of models you use, the client-server back and forth, and the required processing and text gen. How did you do that? And at which point do you start to get bigger latencies e.g. writing an email, an essay, or a novel where you change the spelling of a character's name 2 chapters earlier.
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#243Congrats! The launch is a stellar example of focusing on key functionality and cutting everything else. Core tech is amazing.
I played writing an intro for some documentation I'm creating, and it was amazing. It felt very conversational, very different than traditional dictation software.
1. I have the same question as others, what's the privacy policy? Where is this being used? I'd like to expend for work but their first question is where the content is going.
2. And straying from focusing on core functionality, do you have a vision of a code specific version of this? Do you feel like a specialized model/tool is needed or do you believe this can take care of it.
Currently, I tried asking it to write out `def func():[newline]pass` and then correcting it but didn't get very far:
> "Just my funk. Oh no the word death try type the letters DEF FU. Okay, no let's stop."
Overall, great work!
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#245Please don't only offer registration via Google. That's bad for you. Bad for users. And very bad for the world. Yes it's cheap. And also catastrophic.
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#246Not sure I'm going to get any traction here, but seeing as the 'support' button in the website is greyed out, not sure where else to post this. I got double-charged for my subscription, and I'm hoping you folks can help me get a refund on the extra charge. I was going through the subscription flow and got an error. The website allowed me to subscribe again so I did, assuming the first one hadn't gone through. I now have two charges on my card.
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#247I 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…
You should check out cursorless… it may be more directly targeting your use case
For anyone else reading, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38214915 - "Cursorless is alien magic from the future" article linked from 4 months ago.
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#248I was impressed with the demo video.
I was impressed with the live demo on the app's homepage.
I subscribed.
But it is so slow and the actual app was clunky and refused to enter much of the dictated text that I gave it (even though it seemed to be recognizing what I said): the words appeared on the screen, then they disappeared.
I had both the speed problem and the recognition problem on both of the latest versions of Firefox and Safari, even though my connection is ~ 620 Mbps up and down.
I canceled my subscription within about 10 minutes.
Oh, I should also add the following feedback:
* The homepage promises that your subscription will include support, but even when you're subscribed, the support button is greyed out.
* There is no way to manually enter or edit the titles of your documents.
I'm disappointed, because I was very excited about this.
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#249Not sure I'm going to get any traction here, but seeing as the 'support' button in the website is greyed out, not sure where else to post this. I got double-charged for my subscription, and I'm hoping you folks can help me get a refund on the extra charge. I was going through the subscription flow and got an error. The website allowed me to subscribe again so I did, assuming the first one hadn't gone through. I now h…
Hi! I'm so sorry about that. Will you send me an email (jack@withaqua.com) and we will sort it out!
(we'll also fix the support button)
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#250This is really cool. Does anyone who knows this stuff better explain how it works on the backend? The founders mentioned 6 different models but how do they interact with each other so fast? There’s definitely an LLM in the back interpreting the commands but how exactly does it work