If they wanted to be non-destructive, then why not just interface with the DIN plug on the end of the existing cable?
Because that is way less clean of a solution and would be a total pain to carry around
I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button
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Re: I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button
#42Another Apple mouse with the charging connector on the bottom side ... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jwU1ZvVFMXw
Hah this was my thought as well..
> Convenient USB-C charging via a port on the bottom
Well-played..
Re: I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button
#43For 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…
You forgot about https://tryvoiceink.com/
19 Dollar and Open-Source.
Re: I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button
#44I love it! "Computer...Ah, hello computer!" immediately comes to mind.
"How quaint." You're not alone. That would be the first thing I said to that mouse as well.
Re: I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button
#45For 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…
You forgot about https://tryvoiceink.com/ 19 Dollar and Open-Source.
I've looked at the codebase. The ones I listed do a significant amount of audio processing to get better transcripts, avoid the "Thank you" issues with whisper large turbo, handle bluetooth and noisy environments.
Hopefully VoiceInk gets there. It is a neat project and really well done for a first time dev but rough around the edges. Careless is ~20$ and if you just need dictation is the best option.
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#46I 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…
> really miss my radar cruise control.
Why would you buy a car that didn't have that, or better technology?
Re: I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> really miss my radar cruise control. Why would you buy a car that didn't have that, or better technology?
"this weekend"
Presumably it's a rental.
I rented a Toyota Camry for a week. I didn't like the implementation of radar cruise control - we were driving in the hills around San Luis Obispo and the car ahead would go around a bend, the car would speed up, we'd go around the bend and the car would slam on the brakes.
I guess that if it'd been a hybrid that things would have been better since it could use regeneration rather than braking. I love adaptive cruise control in my Bolt.
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#48Re: I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button
#49I love it! "Computer...Ah, hello computer!" immediately comes to mind.
Exactly my first thought as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqiDu1BQXY
We're living in the 80s version of the future. We have Star Trek today.
Re: I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button
#50I 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…
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