Just admit it. You did it because of the Star Trek scene.
I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button
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#32If they wanted to be non-destructive, then why not just interface with the DIN plug on the end of the existing cable?
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#33I just recently dabbled in STT as a way to control my computer. Unfortunately, i dont know if i will continue working on it, because it quickly revealed that our current GUI configuration and how we operate our systems, just dont "flow" well with Speech to Text and operations one might expect. I think id need some additional ML or something, in order to even partly go any further forward in that project.
Sure, I can add to the program I have currently to make it handle "any" task, but, with how we currently operate computers, and view content, there is not a way to avoid touching the keyboard and mouse entirely. Tbh im not even sure what i could propose to improve the gui for controlling the system star trek style.
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#34I love it! "Computer...Ah, hello computer!" immediately comes to mind.
Maybe it’s because I’m just recovering from attending my 35-year college reunion, but I had a memory return of being in the college computer lab and telling someone to use the mouse to move the cursor, so they picked it up and waved it in the air. That Star Trek IV scene was a reminder that a computer mouse isn’t as universally intuitive of a device as it might seem. (And on a tangentially-related note—I’ve been driv…
Late 90s/early 00s, I tried to show my grandmother how to play cars on my Performa 5200. Her natural hand position — presumably from a lifetime of pen use — rotated it 90°, which meant the mouse movement absolutely did not follow her wrist movement.
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#35Diane, Entering the town of Twin Peaks.
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#36I made a three button Sun mouse into a pot pipe, with the bowl sticking out a hole in the middle "Adjust" button.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. I would call Apple's Magic Mouse the worst mouse of all time if it didn't have the cool feature of working as both a trackpad and a mouse. Haven't really seen that elsewhere
It's better than the puck mouse and Mighty Mouse at least
I vastly, vastly prefer my Mighty Mouse to the Magic Mouse.
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#38I have a bunch of these Apple Mouses for sale
I'm sorry, did you just unironically say "mouses"? -_-
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#39I love it! "Computer...Ah, hello computer!" immediately comes to mind.
Maybe it’s because I’m just recovering from attending my 35-year college reunion, but I had a memory return of being in the college computer lab and telling someone to use the mouse to move the cursor, so they picked it up and waved it in the air. That Star Trek IV scene was a reminder that a computer mouse isn’t as universally intuitive of a device as it might seem. (And on a tangentially-related note—I’ve been driv…
> Maybe it’s because I’m just recovering from attending my 35-year college reunion, but I had a memory return of being in the college computer lab and telling someone to use the mouse to move the cursor, so they picked it up and waved it in the air.
I've seen this behavior in people that have seen other people use mouses for over a decade before, especially my Mom. It's my personal universal sign to immediately stop teaching that person anything. If you get shown a mouse move across a table like a pug, get explained that moving it up and down, left and right is a relative motion and you pick it up and wave it in the air you are just signaling that you do not want to learn.
My mom and her friends pestered me for years as a teen to show them how computers work and how to use them. When I tried to teach them the basics they were dismissive as if the computer had to conform to their way of thinking how the interaction should work. I learned to not engage with those people at all. Funnily enough, a decade later after they actually wanted to learn it they figured it out themselves.
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#40For folks looking to running speech to text locally(in the context of dictation) and dont want to do a subscription there are a few apps that run whisper large turbo locally (optimized to run really fast on apple silicon). 1. https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper (dictation + transcription) 2. https://carelesswhisper.app (does dictation only, and does it really well; cheapest) 3. https://superwhisper.com (both…
Do any of these support streaming dictation, to show text progressively while dictating?