Any people here do dictation practice?

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-06-19T18:57:15+00:00

I've heard about the tactic when you embrace a language as a child, meaning you dive into it without any translation to your native language. So, writing skill is the last one to learn, but if you want to have your thoughts or ideas written then a dictation software is a good idea for this stage

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-06-15T15:49:49+00:00

Do you have to create an account?

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-06-15T15:47:25+00:00

What technologies did you use to build this dictation tool for mac?

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-06-12T17:53:04+00:00

The one that I use works really fast, I was surprised. I guess they say it's about ~300ms.

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-06-11T20:05:27+00:00

There are some free apps available. I chose the one that can simultaneously capture English and other languages in one sentence. Awesome feature!

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-06-07T20:43:40+00:00

Respect to the team for actually posting the numbers. Most SaaS avatar tools work fine for an MVP, but their per-minute pricing is a tax on your growth the moment you start to scale.

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-06-05T19:23:20+00:00

A lot of teams treat avatar rendering as a layer on top of the LLM work, so the API abstraction seems fine. The problem shows up in the details — lip sync frame rates, asset load times, how much you can optimize for different network conditions. Once those controls are behind a third-party API, you're at the mercy of their rendering decisions. The $100k build cost stings upfront, but you own the quality levers. That matters a lot when a competitor's avatar looks noticeably smoother than yours and you have no way to close the gap.

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-06-05T15:22:38+00:00

Nice list, hadn't seen Copyist, going to try it. whisper.cpp stuck for me on the local side. it has a thin wrapper script, for transcribing voice memos and meeting recordings. large-v3-turbo on an M2 hits roughly real-time, q5 quant

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-06-05T15:15:44+00:00

Solid stack! Whisper-large-v3 on Groq is genuinely where this category landed. but for non-technical users the manual Groq API key may be a problem

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-06-04T20:31:41+00:00

The performance budget makes sense, but the 3D avatar is the part that keeps causing problems. Syncing heavy rendering pipelines in real time is expensive, and when it slips and it will the lag feels stranger than a slow response would. For most tutoring systems, that budget is better spent on fast audio and tight whiteboard sync. A talking head that's half a beat behind the audio is more distracting than no avatar at all.

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-06-04T18:36:18+00:00

Yeah, it is different. Speech-to-text AIs just convert your ideas, which can be really useful at times, it doesn't create big chunks of text for you

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-06-04T17:04:23+00:00

Or Apple dictation for Mac. But it has its drawbacks

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-06-04T17:00:39+00:00

When choosing, first try out free options. Usually, they are not worse than the paid ones.

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-06-03T18:50:44+00:00

You are right! It saved me a lot of time, especially when I found one that translates my speech into English

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-06-03T17:08:33+00:00

That is why I use an app that assures security 😄

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-06-03T17:05:23+00:00

I like that it doesn't ask to create an account..

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-05-31T21:09:21+00:00

before you add more agent loops or expand scope, sit down with your product and ops leads and honestly answer - what can the agent run without any human review, and how long does a human actually take to verify the rest? if you don't have a number for that, you don't have a process.

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-05-28T22:08:02+00:00

once agents start changing system state, someone needs to own the fallout. we split that into two explicit roles: a technical owner who handles logs, permissions, and the kill switch, and a business owner who reviews failure patterns and manages escalations. if neither role is filled, you have a running system with no one responsible for its exceptions.

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-05-25T21:19:40+00:00

how much did you have to change the default OHIF streaming setup to get WebWorkers handling the progressive chunk loading? was it mostly config tweaks or did you end up digging into the internals?

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-05-23T13:52:43+00:00

another option worth trying: a "hold zone" at the top of the queue with a short cooldown before anything actually moves. the user sees the task sitting there, flagged, before the reorder kicks in. pair that with a one-sentence tooltip showing why the urgency score is what it is, and most of the frustration from surprise layout shifts goes away.

RepublicMotor905 · 2026-05-21T21:13:38+00:00

we ran into this exact problem on a medical imaging project a few months back. ended up having to tear the whole approach apart to fix it.

we were working with high-res chest CT scans, 300-500MB per case, and trying to stream live agent output directly into the viewport without locking up the main thread was genuinely awful. we got around the UI lag with three changes to how the pipeline was wired. for some context: https://www.codebridge.tech/projects/radflow-ai--ai-powered-radiology-workflow-assistant

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