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 HNThe 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 HNAwesome! 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