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Show HN: ScriX - Chrome extension summarizing speech into bullet
points
Author : molli
Score : 15 points
Date : 2024-05-03 11:30 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (chromewebstore.google.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (chromewebstore.google.com)
| zeke_the_cat wrote:
| No explanation of how it works or how to get started. Doesn't
| seem to do anything.
|
| Typical problem. Developers often fail to answer the most basic
| question: What is this and how do I use it?
| molli wrote:
| You watch a YouTube video or participate in a video call etc.
| where humans are talking. You click on the extension. You
| select a language. You click start. Every 30 seconds the audio
| gets transcribed and translated into short bullet points. The
| transcripts are saved. Finally, you can ask the transcript any
| question or transform it into a poem by Arnold Schwarzenegger -
| one of the great Austrian thinkers.
| HanClinto wrote:
| > You watch a YouTube video or participate in a video call
| etc. where humans are talking.
|
| If transcriptions of my video calls are being performed in
| the cloud on an untrusted server, then this feels like a big
| security risk...?
| molli wrote:
| I know what you mean. But I can't run the transcription and
| llm locally on the user's machine. So it has to be in the
| cloud. And most video calls and transcription/translation
| services are in the cloud anyway. So yes, you have to trust
| that the backend is secure, and it is.
| hagbard_c wrote:
| Yes, that's because it _is_ a leak - just like most other
| cloud services by the way. Step by step, piece by piece,
| bit by bit the concept of 'privacy' has been hollowed out
| by pushing 'cloud' services (where 'cloud' stands for
| "someone else's computer") into just about all aspects of
| personal data-manipulation. This was one of the tenets of
| the 'Great Reset' push by the World Economic Forum which
| sought to capitalise (no pun intended) on the SARS2
| pandemic to reshuffle the world into their vision of a new
| society. One of the better known publications which
| espoused this idea was written by Danish member of
| parliament Ida Auken under the title _Welcome to 2030. I
| own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been
| better_. Here is is on the WEF site:
|
| https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/shopping-i-can-t-
| real...
|
| If you follow that link you'll be told they're _Sorry, but
| we can't find the page you were looking for_. Fortunately
| there is the Internet Archive to save the day:
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20200919102818/https://www.wefo
| r...
|
| There is a sentence at the end of the article which refers
| to the death of privacy in the service of this brave, new
| world: _Once in awhile I get annoyed about the fact that I
| have no real privacy. No where I can go and not be
| registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think
| and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use
| it against me._
|
| Since these ideas did not go down that well - which is an
| understatement - the lede was buried and later still
| removed from the site but the push towards giving up
| personal privacy has in no way diminished. Think of that
| the next time you consider using one of these 'handy'
| services, also the next time you log in to your cloud
| account. How much of your personal life did you entrust to
| that cloud vendor? Maybe the time has come to take it back?
| molli wrote:
| These are noble values! But how to build a tool for easy
| transcription and summarization then?
| hagbard_c wrote:
| At this moment, not just yet. Once either the models have
| come down in size or hardware has caught up with the
| demands so they can be run locally it will become
| feasible to offer such functionality in a way which does
| not sacrifice privacy to convenience.
| bertman wrote:
| Looking at the code, the extension listens for `streamID`
| messages that are emitted whenever a user plays media in the
| browser[0]. It then captures the audio playback using the
| `MediaRecorder` interface [1] and sends the audio to the
| developer's backend server (wss://scrix.molyz.app/websocket)
| via WebSocket connection where it gets transcribed.
|
| [0]:https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv2/reference/
| t...
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| [1]:https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
| US/docs/Web/API/MediaRecord...
| drcongo wrote:
| From the name I was expecting it to turn speech into dubstep.
| molli wrote:
| Coming soon
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