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Some people will think this is nothing more than a frontend on top of gemini, but if you're genuine with it, you will actually get helpful potentially life-changing guidance.

Would love to have these go to my Tana or another PKM. Will that be possible or will it have to go to the Pebble app?

How does this compare to rsnapshot?

They've had open access to the internet until now and look where we've gotten. Having open access to the internet was not convincing enough Russians to condemn their government. So maybe getting people inconvenienced enough to show them the world condemns their actions is a better shot.

If it would help them, they would've done it themselves. They've already taken out Twitter and Facebook without any hesitation.

The subjects are the ones in the best position to get rid of Putin. And in a way the subjects are responsible for their leader. Many are fine with the status quo and sitting comfortably at home while Ukrainians are in refugee camps.

We can choose what's best based for the task at hand. In the same way most people don't use the mouse to click an online keyboard, most people won't use voice control to type WASD in-game.

Dictation, for instance, is an easy-win for voice input. Clicking buttons can be more convenient with voice when we're talking to Smart TVs or, perhaps, if our hands have pizza grease all over them and we don't want to touch the keyboard.

You're limiting your thinking to the paradigm of visual interfaces paired with a mouse and keyboard. When all you have is a hammer...

Here's some examples where bandwidth and latency wins with speech:

1. "Play here comes the sun" vs. opening spotify, waiting, clicking the search box, typing here comes the sun, pressing enter, waiting, scanning the page and clicking the right song.

2. "Send email to John asking him if he would like to Play golf" vs. opening Gmail, waiting, clicking compose, start typing john, click the right email, tab to subject... etc.

There are cases where keyboard and mouse input is better... e.g. editing text, graphics production and editing, etc.. But certainly not in "almost all tasks" as you say. I think speech is the 3rd big computer interface that complements the mouse and keyboard and will make computers more productive and convenient for everyone regardless if you have a disability.

I too noticed that Dragon is trash (2.2/5 rating on the Chrome Webstore, yikes) I've been working on one that's purpose-built for the web. Most software today is moving towards the web, so that's where we narrowly focus. It works everywhere (including HN, Reddit, YouTube, Gmail... even Duolingo)

You can DL it here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lipsurf-voice-cont...

Sounds promising! I have noticed companies with environmental impact have disproportionately more success in crowd-funding. Many non-institutional investors (like myself) put their money in ideas that are good for the world - almost like charity. Perhaps you will consider raising funds and spreading the word using a crowd-funding site such as https://www.startengine.com/explore

I'll start it off: crowdfunding (eg startengine.com) so anyone can invest in startups instead of traditional VC to an exclusive group of investors "in the club".

Also, if cash were the issue, why limit only “meme stocks” why not limit stock buying across the board to prevent manipulation?

Never saw yours before, but I discovered "Handsfree for Web" a few months after I started - and thought he had ripped mine off. But I no longer think so. Yes, seems like many commands are the same. Shame that so much wheel reinvention is going on. One thing that makes LipSurf "special" is the deep integration with sites. I wanted to use Duolingo, Reddit, HN and some others more with voice - so they get special plugins. Doing Duolingo with voice is a game changer for language learning - and if it weren't for usecases like that I would have likely lost interest like you long ago.

I've been working on this exact thing for Chrome the last 3 years: https://www.lipsurf.com Anyone can make an open source plugin for it to do anything with voice (https://github.com/LipSurf/plugins)

I've wanted to port it to Firefox, but the HTML5 SpeechRecognition API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecog...) is still not available. Why not just make the API available and leave this in addon territory for all developers?

You can easily see for yourself on the twitter thread that is linked in the article. There's also this tweet for context: https://twitter.com/DotProto/status/1273824813270700038?s=20

They thought we weren't using the TTS permission, but we are.

I have a free Chrome Extension that let's you control the browser via voice: https://www.lipsurf.com

Rest is ultimately the best way to prevent hand injuries and since I spend most of my time in Chrome, this extension lets me do it hands free.

I'm working on a Chrome Extension that lets you open tabs, navigate pages, click links, dictate emails etc. on the web using voice-control: https://www.lipsurf.com

Many of my users have motor control issues. Depending on the manner of the difficulty, I think this will be useful to you.

If you need voice control for Chrome, I hope you don't mind if I recommend a tool that I'm developing myself: https://www.lipsurf.com

It integrates deeply with websites - eg. there's even a HN plugin so you can say things like "upvote 1st" or "comments 3rd" on HN.

It's not that simple. For example, this would break my accessibility Chrome Extension that lets users browse just using their voice (https://www.lipsurf.com)

The extension can always listen- it has a wake-word just like Alexa, Siri et al. "hey LipSurf" in the premium version. It can be used on a media PC/TV, you would just need to setup your microphone to listen from wherever you sit or wear a wireless headset.

If you're still looking for a good way to browse YouTube - I've made a Chrome extension that let's you browse the web using voice control - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lipsurf-voice-cont...

Hope this helps.

Exactly, voice works amazingly as a "3rd interface" complementing keyboards and mice which aren't completely accurate, either, fwiw. Voice gives us more speed, frees up UI clutter and can free up our hands.

I'm working on a tool that explores this area more: https://www.lipsurf.com

I think voice is underutilized as a 3rd, powerful complimentary interface; mouse and keyboard being the first and second. A smart speaker doesn't enable me to be more productive on the tool I use most, my computer.

I'm building something that I think is much more powerful than smart speakers for the following reasons.

1. It's software and lives on the hardware that you already have... your computer. It's not a standalone hardware device silo'd from the existing tooling you use daily.

2. It provides visual feedback (live transcription, with colors indicating what's understood), because it can. Smart speakers can't.

3. It's a browser extension, so it easily integrates with all the webapps that you use daily: gmail, google docs, hacker news... any webapp you want it to.

4. Plugins are intuitive to develop and open-source so anyone can build off and improve them (https://github.com/lipsurf/plugins)

It's a work in progress, but in case anyone is interested: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lipsurf-voice-cont...

Really shady:

From chrome extensions page (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gmass-powerful-mai...)

"Writing a review Good day,

I would love to take Ajay Goel on his offer to refund my fee by writing a review, but I am getting a message stating I cannot because my email address is not authorize"