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Re:Show HN: Record voice memo, receive transcription in email by Void_ on Thursday October 20, 2022 @10:42AM (#33275453)
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.

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Re:Show HN: Record voice memo, receive transcription in email by AndrewKemendo on Thursday October 20, 2022 @12:23PM (#33277012)
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

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Re:Show HN: Record voice memo, receive transcription in email by n8cpdx on Thursday October 20, 2022 @12:45PM (#33277330)
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.

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