[HN Gopher] Show HN: Record voice memo, receive transcription in...
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Show HN: Record voice memo, receive transcription in email
Author : Void_
Score : 65 points
Date : 2022-10-20 13:49 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (whispermemos.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (whispermemos.com)
| djbusby wrote:
| On Android one can just use the Microphone input from the
| keyboard. Just tap and instant transcript, in whatever you like
| (I use a web-based knowledge thing).
|
| Tap Icon on home screen, tap new, tap Microphone, talk for a few
| minutes, press save.
|
| Why am app for a built in feature?
| RandomWorker wrote:
| It going to your email is quite useful for those that have that
| email be the primary method of collecting work and notes. It's
| like that old blackberry concept of the universal inbox,
| everything just goes to one thing, and get's collected there.
|
| For those with that work flow this is really cool app.
| layer8 wrote:
| On iOS you can define a two-step Shortcut that does this
| (type or dictate text and then send it by email to a
| predefined address [0]). I imagine there are similar
| facilities on Android.
|
| [0] "Ask for Input" followed by "Send Email", deactivate
| "Show Compose Sheet" on the latter. Then use the microphone
| symbol for speech recognition on the initial text input.
| xenonite wrote:
| Let me mention Just Press Record, which performs the
| transcription on iOS and macOS with Apple's speech recognition,
| which is on-device for several languages.
|
| https://apps.apple.com/app/id1033342465
| petercooper wrote:
| Seconded - one big win with Just Press Record is you can add it
| as a complication on an Apple Watch, so you can hit a button
| anywhere you are, leave a voice memo, and it's transcribed and
| on all your iCloud devices.
| Void_ wrote:
| This an iOS wrapper for OpenAI Whisper library.
|
| You can use the lock screen widget to start recording - allowing
| you to quickly capture what's on your mind.
|
| This comment was the inspiration behind this:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32928118
|
| Pricing is currently somewhat high, until I figure out how much
| it costs to run Whisper on cloud GPUs. I'll adjust the pricing
| accordingly, and perhaps switch to per-minute model.
| rexreed wrote:
| If you're not running it on Cloud GPUs right now and it's not
| on device, how is it running the Whisper library now?
| alexarena wrote:
| This is cool! Curious if it would be possible to run the model
| on device?
| ggerganov wrote:
| Me too - I recently ported the model to plain C/C++ and I am
| now planning to run it on device and see if the performance
| is any good. Will post an update when/if it works out
| Void_ wrote:
| I suppose the built-in iOS voice recognition would be better
| for that.
|
| I haven't really compared those two properly. Wonder how much
| better Whisper is.
| AndrewKemendo wrote:
| Apple will keep up with anything that SOTA, just with a bit
| of a lag - so just expect they will be better soon if not
| already
|
| Word of warning from someone who built an SDK that filled
| in a processing gap that Apple had (6DOF Monocular SLAM)[1]
| Apple will eventually make your technology obsolete and
| their version will be way better. See: ARKit
|
| We open sourced it once ARKit came out because there was no
| way to monetize it further
|
| [1] https://github.com/Pair3D/PairSDK
| n8cpdx wrote:
| Whisper is a game changer in terms of accuracy. It makes
| Zoom, YouTube, Zoom, Office/Azure, Descript, and Otter.ai
| transcription look like jokes in comparison.
|
| The step change in transcription accuracy here is
| significant enough to cross an important threshold for
| usefulness.
| n8cpdx wrote:
| Probably not realistic. On an M1 Pro MBP, Whisper runs far
| slower than real time. Think on the order of days for a 2
| hour recording.
|
| I've been doing transcription work for public meetings.
| Whisper is truly incredible in terms of error rate even in
| extremely challenging circumstances (obscure acronyms,
| unusual terms, unusual names, poor recording quality). I was
| seeing only a few errors per hour; most things that look like
| errors are in fact accurate representation of humans saying
| weird things. But I have to run it on my desktop with CUDA
| enabled. With the medium model it is iirc barely faster than
| real time. I only have a 1070 so maybe it is better with more
| modern hardware.
|
| Whisper does also have some slightly strange behavior with
| silence and very long recordings. I might do a blog post once
| I've got more experience.
| Multicomp wrote:
| I just transcribed a 32 minute audio recording of someone
| doing a speech that someone recorded using their phone mic.
|
| I used default settings of "import audio file" with the
| Buzz application, and it was transcribed in less than 10
| minutes. 24KB text file or so.
|
| I'm on a windows PC with AMD ryzen 3
| ggerganov wrote:
| On M1 Pro, with Greedy decoder and medium model, I can
| transcribe 1 hour audio in just 10 minutes (~x6 real-time)
| [0].
|
| [0] https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
| tobr wrote:
| There were at least two errors in the video demo, and that
| was just 15 seconds of audio. "I can take some notes from a
| meeting" was transcribed as "I can take some notes from
| meeting", and "I click stop [recording]" ended up as "And
| click the stop".
| Multicomp wrote:
| For PCs there is the buzz application
| https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz/tree/main.
| O__________O wrote:
| How did you select your GPU provider?
| mighty_donkey wrote:
| Is there a limit on how much I can record? Is this just for quick
| notes or could i record a 30mins meeting? Thanks and congrats on
| the launch.
| Void_ wrote:
| Currently 10m limit, but I'll be testing more.
| swah wrote:
| I do something similar with a Telegram bot... but the quality is
| only good enough to let me know if I should listen to that audio
| again.
| mellosouls wrote:
| This looks cool but I think we need a tech equivalent of "...IN
| MICE" warning for Apple-only products on this site.
|
| btw there are cross-platform apps which have some similar
| functionality, eg voiceliner
|
| https://a9.io/voiceliner/
| mtVessel wrote:
| It'd be nice if you linked to a privacy policy on that page. The
| policy linked to on the app store page isn't very specific,
| either.
| happyllama wrote:
| This seems great! I'm excited to try it out. It reminds me of
| Voiceliner which I've been using for a while now. Voiceliner does
| on device transcription & allows for creating hierarchy to notes
| / ideas with export functions too
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29726787
| giantg2 wrote:
| Damn, I wish I knew about Vosk (which Voiceliner uses) a few
| months ago. I was struggling with Sphinx and couldn't get it to
| have any accuracy. I will definitely check this out.
| sriram_malhar wrote:
| Very nice indeed. Thanks for sharing.
|
| You mention that you use whisper on the cloud. I was wondering
| what you think of on-device decoding using the base.en model and
| tflite.
|
| Something along the lines of:
|
| https://colab.research.google.com/github/usefulsensors/opena...
| topicseed wrote:
| https://recorder.google.com/ is pretty amazing to me and is
| accessible from mobile and web. Not sure if it's Pixel-specific
| or not.
| notRobot wrote:
| It is pixel exclusive.
|
| > _Recordings backed up from the Recorder app on your Google
| Pixel will appear here._
|
| Visited on a non-pixel Android device.
| sattoshi wrote:
| What are the "in-app purchases"?
| Void_ wrote:
| There's a subscription to use it beyond 20 free memos. Running
| these models is pretty expensive!
| j45 wrote:
| I am aware of voice memo apps running a library like vosk
| transcribing just fine on device instead of in cloud and
| without cost.
| Void_ wrote:
| Send a link, would love to try it.
| mritchie712 wrote:
| perfect. signed up.
|
| nice job!
| trafnar wrote:
| I like that this is so focused on quickly initiating the
| recording, then just emailing the transcript, rather than trying
| to keep me in the app. That's exactly how I'd like this type of
| app to function.
| barbazoo wrote:
| That's how they all start. Wait until there's VC money
| involved.
| Void_ wrote:
| Haha this is just a side project - I'm co-founder of Reflect
| (https://reflect.app) and more likely we'll be integrating
| this functionality into our note-taking app.
| barbazoo wrote:
| Cool, yeah that sounds like a logical thing to do. Good
| luck.
|
| I wish whispermemos was available for Android. I have to
| look into what's available and what the privacy
| implications are. Would love to use something like that. A
| Joplin plugin would be awesome.
| pwinnski wrote:
| I'm trying to resist a "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad.
| Lame." response, but iOS already does voice-to-text, so it's hard
| to see what value-add this offers. I think the comment which
| inspired you was from an Android user? Or at least not an iOS16
| user, where the voice-dictation is much improved.
|
| Single-click launch from the lock screen? That's neat, I don't
| think I can get there with bare iOS.
|
| No real-time feedback as I speak, so that seems like a point to
| iOS.
|
| The email is a nice touch, but the trade-off is that you have a
| copy of all of my recordings now.
|
| Finally, it could be that OpenAI Whisper does a much better job
| than iOS. I have no idea!
| Void_ wrote:
| Haha, you are totally right. I was mainly trying to have fun
| with a new technology.
|
| The email thing makes a lot of difference for me - I don't
| wanna fiddle with my phone any more than just pressing one
| button.
|
| I'll do the rest on my computer. (Copying to Reflect.app,
| creating a todo, etc.)
| markozivanovic wrote:
| Great job! I love that you only need to press the record and stop
| on the phone and the rest is done automagically in the
| background.
|
| I wonder if there's a thing for Android that's as accurate as
| Whisper!?
| Void_ wrote:
| Somebody could build an Android frontend - and use the same
| OpenAI Whisper library on the server.
|
| I didn't bother with React Native thinking audio recording
| would be pain in the butt.
| jcbages wrote:
| It looks so cool! I'd love to have the transcript send to places
| other than email. I'm thinking of either a chat app like WhatsApp
| and Telegram or a productivity app like Notion to keep a more
| organized journal.
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