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SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
4 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful feature for reading voice messages where listening is impractical
From 3 comments
This is such a neat solution to a problem I am facing every day. Especially in an office environment it's simply not feasible to listen to voice messages. What ends up happening…
Coxa on HNAmazing! Every chat app needs this. I use WhatsApp daily and this is in dire need.
your_challenger on HNThis is really cool! It's one of the features I miss in every single chat app. The fact that its done locally here is a nice privacy bonus.
whatsthatabout on HN
Local, on-device processing is a privacy benefit
From 2 comments
This is really cool! It's one of the features I miss in every single chat app. The fact that its done locally here is a nice privacy bonus.
whatsthatabout on HNThe help post I linked states that it supports English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, & Spanish on Pixel 6+. I'm on an OnePlus and I've not had it show anything but English…
meibo on HN
Objections
Transcription may misrepresent tone of voice messages
From 1 comment
Why is nobody talking about how many situations will arise where one person sends a voice message with a certain tone only to be completely misrepresented by someone using this…
HidyBush on HN
Transcription does not help search unless text is stored in the app
From 1 comment
TIL, thanks for sharing! My phone is not supported (Fairphone 3+), sadly. While such a feature would definitely help with the transcription of a message, unless the transcribed…
dexterp37 on HN
Requests
Add offline voice-to-text to Signal Desktop upstream
From 2 comments
That's amazing!!! Is there any possibility it's gonna been added to signal desktop?
gr2zr4 on HNGreat feature. Good luck with making it production ready and merging it upstream if you intend to do that :)
starsep on HN
Support more languages than English
From 2 comments
Unfortunately English only... I use https://t.me/transcriber_bot god knows what they do with my personal stuff though...
carlob on HNThe help post I linked states that it supports English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, & Spanish on Pixel 6+. I'm on an OnePlus and I've not had it show anything but English…
meibo on HN
Questions
Why build this into Signal instead of a local model or messenger-side tool
From 1 comment
I can appreciate the effort and think it is an amazing idea. However, why build that into Signal which is E2EE and use an API for the speech-to-text? It would be much more…
Labo333 on HN
Alternatives named
Android live caption and auto-subtitling
From 1 comment
For everyone on Android: a lot of Android phones have an auto-subtitling feature now that you can turn on by tapping the volume buttons, and pressing the captions icon. Works…
meibo on HN
Transcriber bot on Telegram
From 2 comments
Unfortunately English only... I use https://t.me/transcriber_bot god knows what they do with my personal stuff though...
carlob on HNAppears to be open source: https://github.com/charslab/TranscriberBot
erohead on HN
Scribbn speech-to-text for messaging apps
From 1 comment
Scribbn is a great app that does speech-to-text for WhatsApp and other messaging apps whenever I can't listen to voice messages, e.g. during meetings - or when I'm just not in…
Eduard on HN
Slack voice message transcripts
From 1 comment
Slack has that feature. If you get a voice message you can either play it or display the transcript. Although I don't think it does it offline. Edit: only on paid plans
lhoff on HN
Texts.com offline transcription
From 1 comment
Texts.com supports offline audio transcription for all platforms. They say it's powered by Apple's speech recognition APIs.
zuck9 on HN