jamescham

Moonshine, the new state of the art for speech to text

Posted by jamescham on Monday October 21, 2024 @04:30PM
from the petewarden.com dept.

https://petewarden.com/2024/10/21/introducing-moonshine-the-new-state-of-the-art-for-speech-to-text/

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Re:Moonshine, the new state of the art for speech to text on Monday October 21, 2024 @04:30PM (#41908227)

Pete Warden and team just published a paper on Moonshine, their speech to text model.

Key features include:

- 1.7x overall speed boost compared to Whisper - Flexible-sized input window, allowing for more efficient processing of shorter audio clips - Up to 5x faster performance on 10-second audio clips - Matches or exceeds Whisper's accuracy

Re:Microsoft Semantic Kernel for LLM Integration on Thursday March 16, 2023 @10:23PM (#35192110)

How is this not getting any news?

Re:SF’s Market Street Subway Runs on Reagan-Era Floppy Disks on Monday February 06, 2023 @02:15AM (#34674309)

The actual interview is kind of amazing.

https://twitter.com/priyadclemens/status/1621229630765125639...

Re:Ask HN: What are those strategic skills to master for the next 5, 1... on Sunday January 29, 2023 @12:08AM (#34565151)

This is a great point! (And kind of terrifying.)

Ask HN: Is there a way to follow people on Hacker News?

Posted by jamescham on Friday December 09, 2022 @06:17PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm sure there's a way to do it but I haven't figured it out.

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Re:Report from demo day (in a pocket universe) on Saturday September 10, 2022 @01:33PM (#32792713)

“Some good companies this year”—observations from my friend Joshua.

Report from demo day (in a pocket universe)

Posted by jamescham on Saturday September 10, 2022 @01:33PM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/joshu/status/1567942431236304896

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The New Matrix movie as the “culmination of modern hacker culture”

Posted by jamescham on Sunday December 26, 2021 @03:03AM
from the skibinsky.com dept.

https://skibinsky.com/the-matrix-resurrections-is-an-excellent-movie/

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Re:Autodesk criticised by architects on Monday August 03, 2020 @02:37AM (#24034774)

This is exactly right—we now live in a world in which most jobs are knowledge work, and we should look to those who are the most productive (and lazy) knowledge workers: software developers.

Re:Speech to Text on iPhone vs. Pixel on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:21PM (#23332726)

My understanding is that Google’s big advantage is that they’ve collected so much good, annotated voice data.

Re:Speech to Text on iPhone vs. Pixel on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:19PM (#23332717)

Yeah. I’m convinced the current model is just too confusing. But I really wish there were new interaction patterns that took advantage of low latency speech recognition...

Re:Speech to Text on iPhone vs. Pixel on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:16PM (#23332692)

Oh! Good to know!

Re:Notes from The Valley: The real social network on Sunday March 17, 2013 @01:36AM (#5388289)

ardit33 is right. My experience is that most successful startups are so hungry for talent that they really don't care where you come from or who you know.

Re:Have you ever uninstalled an app based on aesthetics? on Monday December 19, 2011 @12:37AM (#3368630)

I often uninstall apps based on how the UI looks.

Re:Show HN: KernType, a typography game made with Raphaël on Friday October 07, 2011 @08:04PM (#3086532)

Disappointed that I got 86/100 but this reminds me of sitting in front of a Mac in college obsessively adjusting the distance between Y and o.