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Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by viraptor on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:59AM (#35452593)
I'm after something that can transcribe medical notes and unfortunately it does not work well for that case. (almost nothing does though) There's quite a few people interested in something that doesn't turn "laparoscopic" into "leper as cop it".

Maybe the current progress will help though. Models adjusted by your own dictionary or from postprocessing fixes would be amazing.

Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by anonymouse008 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:36AM (#35453058)
Have you tried Siri Dictation? The transcription process doesn’t leave iOS 14 and on - and I’ve been pleasantly surprised.

Laparoscopic - that worked fine ;)

Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by viraptor on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:50AM (#35453261)
> Have you tried Siri Dictation?

No, there's no Apple hardware available in my scenario.

Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by johtso on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:11AM (#35452751)
Have you tried https://speechmatics.com/ ? I think they have a specially tuned medical version, and quite a generous free allowance.
Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by viraptor on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:24AM (#35452916)
I have not, not will do tomorrow. Thanks for the link.
Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by giovannibonetti on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:09AM (#35452721)
You'll probably need a custom model tailored to medical content.
Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by Void_ on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:21AM (#35453694)
OpenAI Whisper is really good.

Here’s an iOS app to play with it: https://whispermemos.com

It even formats recording as paragraphs by running through GPT.

Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by kinkopop on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:30AM (#35453820)
I've been using Whisper Memos for some time now. Simple but useful app to quickly save an idea or memory when you don't have time to type. Speech recognition is much better than native one, especially with languages which are not widely supported.
Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by dgorges on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:45AM (#35454063)
This site is using Whisper:

> Built using transformers.js and the whisper-tiny.en model.

Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by philiplitassy on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:49AM (#35454141)
This app has been my go-to solution for efficiently recording thoughts or memories without the need to spend time typing. Its proficiency in speech recognition is notably outstanding.
Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by kerinin on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:35AM (#35454972)
I really like the accuracy of Whisper, but I feel like it operates at roughly real-time on my machine.
Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by MacsHeadroom on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:30AM (#35455851)
You can speed that up 16x with "faster whisper" https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper
Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by moneywoes on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:45AM (#35455137)
How is the latency? This is whisper running on the iPhone?
Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by ChrisK91 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:55AM (#35455293)
We are using Nuance Dragon Medical at work which is intuitive to use and surprisingly accurate even with very fast dictation. I have yet to come across a solution, that is as accurate, although I'm not sure if they offer solutions for end users directly.
Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by kkielhofner on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:24AM (#35455762)
I had an application for radiology and whisper large-v2 with beam size five was essentially 100% across multiple different types of dictated radiology reports.
Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by leetharris on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:23PM (#35459158)
I work at Rev.AI, we have a model tuned for medical and we are HIPAA compliant across the board. We do human and AI transcription and our ASR is #1 accuracy in the world right now
Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by cpeth on Thursday April 06, 2023 @01:25PM (#35471555)
I took at a look at the Rev.AI website and didn't see any mention of a medical-specific model nor HIPAA compliance. It would be nice if this information was presented in your marketing!
Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by machiaweliczny on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:22PM (#35461231)
Have you tried Whisper and simply saying to GPT the context of conversation and to fix it. I think it should work
Re:Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% c... by dilek on Monday April 10, 2023 @09:12AM (#35511852)
picovoice processes on the device and you can fine-tune the models https://picovoice.ai/platform/cat/