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I was so excited when they presented "improved dictation" during WWDC, and people reviewing the developer previews seem to think it was a stand-in replacement for things like Whispr Flow, but I am little disappointed with the eventual release. It's not a disaster, but I feel like there's so many small little things they could add to meaningfully improve it. Things like adding a dictionary of words that you can maintain for proper nouns or choosing which mic to use for dictation.

Interestingly enough, I was working on something very similar this past few of days[1]! A couple of things that I did differently -

One, in the post-transcription cleanup phase, instead of programmatically fixing the text, I just feed the text with a prompt + dictionary of words into an LLM. Initially tried doing this with the on-device model from Apple in macOS 27, but that was too slow. I've now been playing around with gpt-oss-20b on Groq, which appears to be fast and effective. Although I'm curious how well your programmatic approach works, I might try some sort of a bake off over the next few days. But in the long run, I think I might still stick with an LLM-based formatter because you can have far more interesting formatting considerations or formatting prompts based on the app that you are using or the style or tone of your dictated text.

Two - When building the dictionary of words to fix, I'm also including a recording of the word and having the transcription model just predict draft out variants to use as replacements.

[1] https://github.com/goose42/TalkToMyMac

That’s about 30k people? So a 0.075% increase in your population with people from India (Not accounting for any departures back to India)

Yes, but also why should they? It’s not really in their interest to do so. The only reason they’re doing anything is because of regulatory pressure.

What’s the power consumption on that? The biggest draw for these machines (to me at least), is how they seem to run on a 5w power source.

I felt like the system that’s in the portal from Facebook would be the ideal vc setup for my parents (i.e. video calling on a tv). Though, there’s no way I’d want to put a camera from Facebook in my parents house. I did try Google duo (I guess it’s call meet now?) with a Google tv, but since it was with a 3rd party web cam, things like autofocus didn’t work as well as I’d like.

There’s quite a few. I think they’re called “dark stores”. https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/30/business/grocery-delivery-pic...

If you double click the top bar (or use one of the many window management tools), you can maximize the window without going full screen.

You can always boot from your mbp? Treat it like an external bootable storage system. Yes you won’t be able to use the display on the laptop, but you will be able to run your applications on the iMac. (Assuming that matters more? For me it does. I can’t stand how slow docker is on my mbp, pretty much puts my cpu to 100% and has the fans running at full speed)

Maybe I'm being too picky? Or a maybe I'm just in the minority, bit I don't really like using Sonic. I mean, their internet works, and customer support is fine (but I've had as good a service from Comcast too).

What I find annoying from Sonic is their billing process. I dislike that they foist a random router onto you and charge you $10 a month (and charge you if you want to return it). I also dislike that they force a landline on you and charge you another $10 on you. Who in 2019 needs a landline? What I find somewhat dishonest, is how the sell it. I get that most advertising is not supposed to reflect reality, but it's sort of strange that you get excited about ads that say and "1GBPS internet at $40 a month" and only a year later realize that you're paying $75 a month instead. And that's something that's public, who knows what else about their business is as deceptive.

I suppose that's why Sonic has survived. I suppose that's the kind of business you need to run if you want to have a successful ISP.

I have it set up so that it connects to my phone via bluetooth, and I output audio from whatever service I want on my phone.

Also, you can get it to connect to your phone via a voice command ("Alexa connect <device name>"), when you want to use it.

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I am currently in the San Francisco Bay Area for the next few weeks, and I hope to talk to as many companies as I can.

Curious, what do people who work with embedded systems usually use to get a web interface for their device? Routers, for as long as I can remember have had a web UI though I'm not really sure what sort of a back end runs it.

Isn't that the real problem? You're a company that says "here's 15 seconds to convey some information". Yet, you aren't able to convey the information you wanted to (i.e the ad for your service) in 15 seconds. I think they missed a trick with this ad.

Here's a related talk on MiniKanren by Dan Freidman and Will Byrd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q9x16uIsKA

The bits about generating programs using MiniKanren was truly mind blowing.

Yep, I remember reading it a long time ago. Quite a fun read.

I think engadget just blurred out the passwords there.