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Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor

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Re: Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor

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Post by codeptualize »

rhyme-boss wrote: post #46

I use Apple dictation heavily for transcribing interviews. I've tried all the voice-to-text services out there and none have been reliable enough *at transcribing an audio file. I've settled on playing audio in my headphones and pausing while I carefully dictate text into a document. If I could upload the audio file, get a first-pass transcription, and then go through and edit / make corrections with voice, that woul…

Have you tried openai whisper? Last time I compared it was quite a bit better than all the other options.

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

Friendly FYI - not sure if this is a skill issue on my part or something that's not possible yet, but I couldn't figure out how to change the audio input. I think when it asked for microphone access (chrome latest, Mac) that it chose the Macbook microphone which won't work as it's docked.

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Post by [deleted] »

rickydroll wrote: post #29

I developed an RSI-related injury back in 94/95 and have been using speech recognition ever since. I would love a solution that would let me move off of Windows. I would love a solution allowing me to easily dictate text areas in Firefox, Thunderbird, or VS code. Most important, however, would be the ability to edit/manipulate the text using what Nuance used to call Select-and-Say. The ability to do minor edits, repl…

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Post by phillco »

rickydroll wrote: post #29

I developed an RSI-related injury back in 94/95 and have been using speech recognition ever since. I would love a solution that would let me move off of Windows. I would love a solution allowing me to easily dictate text areas in Firefox, Thunderbird, or VS code. Most important, however, would be the ability to edit/manipulate the text using what Nuance used to call Select-and-Say. The ability to do minor edits, repl…

> when the Bakers ran Dragon Systems

For those who don't know what happened next, and why Dragon seem to stagnant so much in the aughts, the story about how Goldman Sachs helped them sell to essentially Belgian Enron, months before they collapsed, was quite illuminating to me, and sad.

https://archive.ph/Zck6i

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Post by mathisd »

rhyme-boss wrote: post #46

I use Apple dictation heavily for transcribing interviews. I've tried all the voice-to-text services out there and none have been reliable enough *at transcribing an audio file. I've settled on playing audio in my headphones and pausing while I carefully dictate text into a document. If I could upload the audio file, get a first-pass transcription, and then go through and edit / make corrections with voice, that woul…

Have you tried using Whisper from OpenAI ? Aiko [0] have Whisper-v2-large built-in and allow for transcription of audio file

[0] https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/aiko/id1672085276

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Post by geor9e »

moconnor wrote: post #26

You don't say so explicitly, but it'd be good to know what data goes to the cloud - I presume all of it including speech recordings? Or is STT on device? Also what your privacy / retention policies are around this data. Excellent demo and great-looking product btw!

I just spent 10 seconds trying it. It was able to interpret my intentions and parse out commands from the literal transcription. "bazinga but in all caps and with a j" became "BAZINJA". So at the minimum, it's going through an LLM in the league of llama, which if run locally in browser is slow as molasses on my ancient MacBook. So it's definitely going to the cloud. As a rule of thumb, you should just assume any website you didn't completely code yourself is sending every mouse movement and every text that you type and then backspace, including passwords, to a cloud big data analytics repo via a few javascript listeners.

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Post by aaroninsf »

Infinite details to remark on, but,

NO NOTES.

This is the sort of the thing that I forward to people who are skeptical about the disruptive capacity AI has, to take long-standing seemingly intractable problems, and "solve" them.

Hats off. Truly inspiring in many senses!

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