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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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I'll certainly go give this a spin later as I use voice to text daily. My first few questions: How's the dictation accuracy compare to Talons latest model, or Microsoft's new voice access? Or dragon? You've got a few comparisons already but nothing that I actually use. What's the latency like? At least for me a general voice editor isn't useful, give me something that can send text to wherever my mouse is pointing an…

We'll be releasing a custom dictionary and templates soon. We are testing them internally now, and they aren't quite reliable enough to release, but we understand how important this is for many workflows.

On accuracy, we benchmark very well against even large async models, with a WER of .05-.06 and when Aqua does make a mistake you can often correct it by just telling it "no it's our side not outside" and it won't mangle the text.

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

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I tried it in Firefox on my Android and got this error when I tried to use the demo: "Error: NotSupportedError: AudioContext.createMediaStreamSource: Connecting AudioNodes from AudioContexts with different sample-rate is currently not supported."

Same here

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

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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…

Check out Descript. It's been awesome when I used it in the past

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

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post #93

I tried it in Firefox on my Android and got this error when I tried to use the demo: "Error: NotSupportedError: AudioContext.createMediaStreamSource: Connecting AudioNodes from AudioContexts with different sample-rate is currently not supported."

FYI to the devs... I got the same error on Firefox Win11 x64.

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

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post #93

I tried it in Firefox on my Android and got this error when I tried to use the demo: "Error: NotSupportedError: AudioContext.createMediaStreamSource: Connecting AudioNodes from AudioContexts with different sample-rate is currently not supported."

Patching this now!

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

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I have goosebumps! Jiminy Crickets... I have SOOO many use cases for your thing. [edit: what does this mean: https://i.imgur.com/rHQt6ul.png when attempting to demo?] --- * I want an agent that I can speak to on Mobile headset as I love to think out loud - and air my thoughts and thought process through talking through my internal dialogue - if this could just capture what I am saying and log it and I can refine thou…

Thank you, awesome to see how many ideas this inspired! We've thought about a lot of similar things ourselves and will certainly build some of them :) Sorry about the error you are getting! It's a Firefox thing. We will patch. In the meantime, Chrome/Safari will work

how many ideas this inspired!

I just want to qualify - you did not inspire these ideas.

These are desires sought which have been there for eons...

You are not inspiring them

You have atool that ENABLES them.

Seek that which already is a flustered pop of ideas waiting for a release valve for such thought.

You are not inspiring - you are enabling that which is already there, think of it as which valve to open - the pressure is mounting upon your dyke.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you, awesome to see how many ideas this inspired! We've thought about a lot of similar things ourselves and will certainly build some of them :) Sorry about the error you are getting! It's a Firefox thing. We will patch. In the meantime, Chrome/Safari will work

how many ideas this inspired! I just want to qualify - you did not inspire these ideas. These are desires sought which have been there for eons... You are not inspiring them You have atool that ENABLES them. Seek that which already is a flustered pop of ideas waiting for a release valve for such thought. You are not inspiring - you are enabling that which is already there, think of it as which valve to open - the pre…

that's a better way to put it!
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