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0 pointsSemaphor3y ago0 comments

I hate talking to machines. Sometimes it’s the best option (I love using a voice assistant in the kitchen), but almost always I’d have a full keyboard as an interface instead.

If machines were amazing at Speech-to-Text, okay, sure. But while the capabilities are impressive, they still kinda suck at it.

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danielbln3y ago· 1 in thread

Speech to text is now amazing: https://huggingface.co/spaces/openai/whisper

SemaphorOP3y ago

It got "Theresa's and Aidsdorm" for "Turisas and Alestorm". Surprisingly, it got pretty close with the German band Schandmaul (something Alexa recognizes 100% of the time as Sean Paul), transcribing to "Schandmauel or Schandmöhrl".

But yeah, that is pretty close to amazing.

I kinda forgot about it after seeing that the Rhasspy community experimented with it, and it had issues with short utterances and a slow startup time.

invalidusernam33y ago

The only voice control anything I use is to create reminders on my iPhone, and the only reason I use that is because the default reminders app's UX is really bad that it's quicker to use the voice commands.

I don't see how text to code would be faster than typing. And even if it is, typing speed is not really a limiting factor in the speed at which I can produce code.

BiteCode_dev3y ago

The first amazing result would not be for you to program with this, but for somebody with a phone to be able to automate a few small tasks with just the voice.

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