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Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle
44•gmays•39m ago

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andy_ppp•13m ago
Wow certainly in English this is incredibly accurate I tried to break it and it understood me perfectly!

I know it's slightly off topic but surely it must be easy by now to train a spell checker that doesn't annoy the crap out of everyone using it (looking at you here Apple)!

tecleandor•13m ago
Spanish is not good (seems to write non existing words and/or with terrible typos...) but English seem to work good even with my (Spanish) accent...
kaoD•11m ago
Spanish from where? Here (Castilian Spanish) it seemed to work fine.
saturn8601•9m ago
Initial tests make this feel just like iPhone's terrible text to speech. It is the one thing I utterly hate about iPhone. Ive tried apps that try to embed themselves into the iPhone keyboard and they always don't work out well. Hopefully this gets better and we can somehow get it into the iPhone more seamlessly.
INTPenis•8m ago
I don't think the challenge with speech to text was size of the binary. In my experience the challenge is understanding my 84 year old Croatian father with a sagging mouth after a stroke, when he's trying to write his autobiography.

I just setup Windows speech to text for him last week and it's great to see how he can write an entire page in 10 minutes, it would take him days using the keyboard.

But every single sound he makes with his mouth ends up on the page too.

joewhale•5m ago
I initially read this as whistle to text, which would be way cooler.

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