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Re:Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making ... by aarushyadav on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:06PM (#50347081)
Tbh we haven't tried internal speech on outsiders yet, just the two of us and one of our employees. We were able to solve it on that small set, so it's technically solvable with enough user specific internal speech personalization data. But the amount of time it took us to learn the behavior comfortably is a bit too high for us to focus on it as a key feature we have from the beginning. In a few months though we will start collecting larger scale data on internal speech as well.

Additionally, we found that you can mouth words discreetly enough / with no exaggerated movements, such that people sitting around you would likely not notice unless they were staring at you, which seems to be good enough, as a start at least.

Re:Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making ... by mrandish on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:19AM (#50348389)
> a bit too high for us to focus on it as a key feature we have from the beginning.

Makes sense, and kind of what I expected. It'll be interesting to see how it develops going forward.

> people sitting around you would likely not notice

That's what I was hoping. Doing my little try at internal speech, it felt like if I articulated close to fully, it might look like I was vigorously chewing :-). Glad to hear there's sensitivity headroom to scale down the degree of articulation. Thanks for the info!