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.
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Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Before you record someone you should always ask for their consent. This is especially important with Rewind, since the recording happens on your Mac and other meeting participants won't know they are being recorded unless you inform them. How should I ask for consent? Here is how we recommend you ask for consent: "This meeting is important to me so I want to make sure I don't forget what we discussed. Is it ok with y…
So you are asking people to give mini marketing pitches for your product in the course of normal conversation and include the pitch in emails invites? You aren't asking people to be conscious of privacy, you are asking people to be a free marketing platform.
If you are more comfortable removing the word Rewind and changing:
"This meeting is important to me so I want to make sure I don't forget what we discussed. Is it ok with you if I use Rewind to record and transcribe the meeting? For our privacy, all data is stored securely on my Mac and not in the cloud."
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"This meeting is important to me so I want to make sure I don't forget what we discussed. Is it ok with you if I record and transcribe the meeting? For our privacy, all data is stored securely on my Mac and not in the cloud."
by all means go ahead.
Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
#43Given that OpenAI Whisper is open source now, and pretty near SOTA, I think creating an audio only open-source version of this shouldn't be difficult. However, I don't know how to easily contextualise the audio - how would I search 'name of the movie I was discussing with Zeynep last week'?
Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
#44Claim: 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 reason we wrote that article is to be 100% transparent about what happens to your data. No reading between the lines necessary. 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 & transc…
It would help to tweak the marketing a bit around recording "everything you say." Is the mic always on? Is it always recording in the background? Is it just for Zoom/Video Conf meetings? Because the first impression I get is that of a scary Black Mirror episode.
Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
#45I'm Dan, co-founder & CEO of Rewind. I am eternally grateful to Hacker News for helping me launch my first startup, Optimizely (YC W10), so I’m back here to launch my second one: Rewind. Rewind is the search engine for your life. Check it out: https://www.rewind.ai It’s a macOS app that enables you to find anything you’ve seen, said, or heard. We’re also announcing that we’ve raised $10m at a $75m valuation led by An…
I have two questions:
1. You claim that the user data is stored locally, that no data is sent to the cloud but audio is sent to a cloud transcription service. How do you reconcile these things?
2. What languages does the app support?
Thank you.
Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
#46Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33420094
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#47Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33420094
It's an HN-dupe only if there's been significant discussion
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#48Why Mac only?
Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
So you are asking people to give mini marketing pitches for your product in the course of normal conversation and include the pitch in emails invites? You aren't asking people to be conscious of privacy, you are asking people to be a free marketing platform.
If you are more comfortable removing the word Rewind and changing: "This meeting is important to me so I want to make sure I don't forget what we discussed. Is it ok with you if I use Rewind to record and transcribe the meeting? For our privacy, all data is stored securely on my Mac and not in the cloud." to "This meeting is important to me so I want to make sure I don't forget what we discussed. Is it ok with you if…
The common way I hear it, every day, is: "Anyone mind if I record?"
Re: Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
#50Given that OpenAI Whisper is open source now, and pretty near SOTA, I think creating an audio only open-source version of this shouldn't be difficult. However, I don't know how to easily contextualise the audio - how would I search 'name of the movie I was discussing with Zeynep last week'?
I got OpenAI Whisper running locally on my Mac but the plumbing to make it NOT tax system resources (like CPU) and to get it to work with search isn't trivial. It's on our roadmap.