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Re:Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor by rhyme-boss on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @01:27PM (#39830477)
I use Apple dictation heavily for transcribing interviews. I've tried all the voice-to-text services out there and none have been reliable enough *at transcribing an audio file. I've settled on playing audio in my headphones and pausing while I carefully dictate text into a document. If I could upload the audio file, get a first-pass transcription, and then go through and edit / make corrections with voice, that would be awesome.

A difference in error rate from 20-something percent down to less than 5 percent sounds incredible.

Re:Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor by hantusk on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @04:25PM (#39832433)
Check out Descript. It's been awesome when I used it in the past
Re:Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor by mathisd on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @01:43PM (#39830641)
Have you tried using Whisper from OpenAI ? Aiko [0] have Whisper-v2-large built-in and allow for transcription of audio file

[0] https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/aiko/id1672085276

Re:Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor by jonplackett on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @07:49PM (#39834154)
This is amazing. Just tried really mumbling a long for a while and it got every word.
Re:Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor by LeoPanthera on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @09:12PM (#39834709)
Is there anything like this for watching foreign television (or radio)? I don't want to create a document, I just want real-time translated subtitles, but I can't do it in advance for live shows.
Re:Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor by codeptualize on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @01:39PM (#39830595)
Have you tried openai whisper? Last time I compared it was quite a bit better than all the other options.
Re:Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor by c0brac0bra on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @07:11AM (#39837615)
Deepgram has been incredibly accurate for me.