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The UI also looks very good for a first version. Excited to give this a try!
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Totally understand how it might feel that way initially. Rewind is built privacy first. Unlike other cloud-based products, all of the recording data is stored locally on your Mac. It's not accessible to others (or to us as employees). Not only that, but we have the following features focused on privacy: 1. Full control: users can pause and delete recordings at any time 2. Exclude apps: users can exclude specific apps…
These are valuable and important, and perhaps the best that can be done, but this also reminds me of when Google Glass was first announced. People did not like the idea that the person you're talking to could be surreptitiously recording or photographing you. Similarly, people hate that Facebook may have a face recognition fingerprint for your face even if you don't use Facebook. Recording meetings for later searchin…
I'd like two AI toys on top of it - embedding similarity search and question answering. The AI part can be executed easily with HuggingFace. There is a great QA model (FLAN) trained with multiple tasks, it can sort of do what GPT-3 does but locally, the private & cheap option.
Overall it has helped me in a couple situations. I will say when I was onboarded I don't believe audio was mentioned and a quick search for things I know I said in Zoom recently comes up empty--perhaps that functionality is new?
For now, I've found that I haven't yet hit the equilibrium point where I've forgotten something badly enough to replace my instinct to use Spotlight, browse Finder, or even search Google Drive (shudders). The Fitness app on iOS needs 180 days of data before it shows you trends; I feel like Rewind is similar in that I need a critical mass of data and time before I truly don't know where to look and go to Rewind first. Audio support would greatly reduce that window, however, so maybe I am missing out.
Overall I definitely recommend trying it out, however!
Edit : do you hire EU citizens ? :)
Edit edit : most of the world doesn't use macOS : what's your long-term vision for non Apple silicon users ? On smartphones ? Any plan on a hardware product that literally records everything you say ?
Claim: For your privacy, we store all of the recordings locally on your Mac. Only you have access to them. From the docs: > Video data is never sent off your Mac. The only data sent to a cloud service is the audio. We send it to a cloud transcription service in order to generate a transcript of what was said. This transcript is created so you can read it and search for specific words that were said. [1] Yeah, we only…
The only time this cloud-based transcription is used is during a Zoom meeting, which is already in the cloud.
When you join a new Zoom Meeting we prompt you to ask if you want to record & transcribe the audio. You can choose to do this selectively for each meeting, or not record & transcribe any of them if you aren't comfortable with cloud-based transcription.
That said, we do plan to move away from cloud-based transcription, likely with Whisper from OpenAI.
Demo looks cool, but a random startup recording everything I do on my computer, uploading it to the cloud and running OCR on it? No thanks.
All OCR is done locally on your Mac.
Claim: For your privacy, we store all of the recordings locally on your Mac. Only you have access to them. From the docs: > Video data is never sent off your Mac. The only data sent to a cloud service is the audio. We send it to a cloud transcription service in order to generate a transcript of what was said. This transcript is created so you can read it and search for specific words that were said. [1] Yeah, we only…
Claim: For your privacy, we store all of the recordings locally on your Mac. Only you have access to them. From the docs: > Video data is never sent off your Mac. The only data sent to a cloud service is the audio. We send it to a cloud transcription service in order to generate a transcript of what was said. This transcript is created so you can read it and search for specific words that were said. [1] Yeah, we only…
Not to be a FOSS-thumping loser, but an a16z backed company that records anything and everything on your screen sounds like a recipe for disaster. May as well set the countdown for the bait-and-switch. Looks like a cool demo with neat tech though. Maybe someone will reimplement as OSS?