Very excited for something like this. I'm hoping you are a victim of your own success, but it's far too slow and is missing words. Would love to see something like this succeed.
Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor
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#252Congratulations on an interesting project. There is a lost opportunity with your natural language only approach. The issue is natural language will never be efficient as an interface. Natural language helps with low domain knowledge. That's the plus side as it allows the end user to say a variety of phrases to get the desired result. Commands allow for surgical precision and efficiency/less voice strain for its end u…
I'm curious, what does an example of this look like? (this is one of the fun things I'm working on right now)
Re: Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor
#253would subscribe in a heartbeat if i could upload audio files for transcription.
What would your use case be?
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#254How soon can I use this to write code?
Curious - what makes you want to use this for code?
I built an MVP sometime back, happy to share a demo and chat more (dm me at @tankots on X!)
Re: Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor
#255Congratulations on an interesting project. There is a lost opportunity with your natural language only approach. The issue is natural language will never be efficient as an interface. Natural language helps with low domain knowledge. That's the plus side as it allows the end user to say a variety of phrases to get the desired result. Commands allow for surgical precision and efficiency/less voice strain for its end u…
I'm curious, what does an example of this look like? (this is one of the fun things I'm working on right now)
> I'm curious, what does an example of this look like? (this is one of the fun things I'm working on right now)
I work with people with disabilities and iot. If the project is open open source I would love to get in touch.
Back to your question, That largely depends on what kind of interface is being used. Is there a screen or only conveying information text to speech. Users aren't going you want to keep track of their customized commands through just a voice interface.
An example: alias command.
Terminology: Utterance (a series of words) Action (programic action to do something)
1. (Previous utterances)(Some actions)
2. Alias (new utterance)
3. A new command is created by voice to do some action in step 1 with the new to utterance in step 2.
The new command encapsulates both the context of a command (command availability) if there is one and the command itself. Think of it as a voice macro. The essentially it allow you to complete a series of complex tasks in series with a small voice command.
Alternatively the alias command without an utterance could trigger a GUI could pop up showing the history of the last commands where a user can select by voice or touch.
This could work for both LM or Commands. Commands would take priority before the LM for recognition.