Wryte

Productivity

dictation software

SHOW HN2016

25points
9comments
#1,074of 2,264 in 2016
Top 48%of 2016 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

0 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score -0.13.

Design: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Dictation is a useful idea

    From 1 comment
    • I am an advocate of dictation, but it would be great if the readme answered the following: 1. Avg error rate on a sample set 2. Trainability 3. Average error rate on sample after…
      startupdiscuss on HN

Objections

  • Naming spelled oddly is hard to search and looks gimmicky

    From 1 comment
    • Don't know if I agree with the utilizing the whole "spell the word differently so it looks cool" naming scheme in this use-case...
      JustUhThought on HN
  • Output needs heavy correction and accuracy is unproven

    From 1 comment
    • It uses Chromes speech to text api. But I don't know, if it could compete with https://cloud.google.com/speech/. There is no training involved/possible. The spoken Texts need to…
      macco on HN

Requests

  • Publish accuracy benchmarks and training details in the readme

    From 1 comment
    • I am an advocate of dictation, but it would be great if the readme answered the following: 1. Avg error rate on a sample set 2. Trainability 3. Average error rate on sample after…
      startupdiscuss on HN
  • Map punctuation keys and newline to voice commands

    From 1 comment
    • Awesome! Would be great if one could use the keys ", ., ,, ;, and maybe p or [ENTER] for newline. Another cool thing would be to prepare a voice recording (3 minutes) and play it…
      ivan_ah on HN

Questions

  • Is it just a wrapper around Google speech recognition?

    From 2 comments
    • This seems to be using Electron's text-to-speech so presumably, it's a wrapper around Google?
      IceyEC on HN
    • The screenshot indicates that it is indeed a wrapper around Google Chrome's speech recognition capabilities.
      raphman_ on HN
  • How to install and run it?

    From 1 comment
    • I haven't written anything with electron... how do I install/run it?
      voiper1 on HN

Alternatives named

  • Google Cloud Speech, Apple dictation, Dragon

    From 2 comments
    • I am an advocate of dictation, but it would be great if the readme answered the following: 1. Avg error rate on a sample set 2. Trainability 3. Average error rate on sample after…
      startupdiscuss on HN
    • Awesome! Would be great if one could use the keys ", ., ,, ;, and maybe p or [ENTER] for newline. Another cool thing would be to prepare a voice recording (3 minutes) and play it…
      ivan_ah on HN

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