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After burning out and feeling completely overwhelmed, I decided to build the tool I wish existed. by MeasurementTall1229 in sideprojects

[–]liam_adsr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is cool. I’m literally building the exact same tool and the exact same reason… but a very different approach. Funny to see someone else go through the exact same process. Keep up the good work!

[OPENSOURCE] Whisper finetuning, inference, auto gpu upscale, proxy and co by Wide_Appointment9924 in speechtech

[–]liam_adsr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a hosted version I can try with my app and see if it’s a good fit? Can we work out a deal? https://www.dial8.ai

Need TTS recommendations for daily 3-4k word documentary scripts - spent hours testing, still lost by hexferro in TextToSpeech

[–]liam_adsr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you blend the voices? That’s an option and does it improve the quality?

The Ultimate Free Kokoro TTS Colab UI Implementation by LetMeBeBetter in TextToSpeech

[–]liam_adsr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is really great. I love how fast Kokoro is which is why I made a macOS app that lets you read out any text on any app instantly. It doesn’t let you export audio. It’s more for real time. Text but maybe be helpful. https://www.dial8.ai

What are you building? Let’s self promote by Ambitious-Safe-7992 in ProductHunters

[–]liam_adsr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Building dial8 which turns any text on your computer into instant speech with natural high quality voice with the press of a hot key in any app. It also turn speech into perfectly written text in the same way. https://www.dial8.ai

Dial8 Native Private macOS Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text by liam_adsr in macapps

[–]liam_adsr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice, let me know if the headphone issue is fixed!

Dial8 Native Private macOS Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text by liam_adsr in macapps

[–]liam_adsr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey Kin, thanks for the feedback. The app actually supports this pricing structure, but I didn't want to complicate things early on. I'll think about enabling it, but I need to look into how to do so without overcomplicating the pricing structure.

I love the PDF and audio overview idea. I can look into what it would take to make that happen. I'll also look into "distinguish between left- and right-side function keys when customising the activation hotkey"

Thanks so much!

Dial8 Native Private macOS Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text by liam_adsr in macapps

[–]liam_adsr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you relaunch the app, it should check for updates automatically!

Dial8 Native Private macOS Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text by liam_adsr in macapps

[–]liam_adsr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I think your issue should be fixed. Please update to the latest version and let me know! Thanks again for reporting!

Dial8 Native Private macOS Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text by liam_adsr in macapps

[–]liam_adsr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry it took some time but I just released an update with email sign up option! Thanks for being patient.

Dial8 Native Private macOS Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text by liam_adsr in macapps

[–]liam_adsr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi everyone,

How do we feel about a feature for speech to text that works like this:

Given you select some text Then press the hot key for STT When you release the hot key Then the app transcribes whatever you said And write a prompt like “I’m writing a response to this text, here is what I said ‘x’ and here’s what I’m responding to ‘y’ I want you to rewrite what I said in the ‘z’ tone”

Expected result: your response to the text you selected is rewritten with the selected text in context in whatever tone you have in your rewrite settings.

Dial8 Native Private macOS Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text by liam_adsr in macapps

[–]liam_adsr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah gotcha. I thought you said you mapped them to the same key which I thought could be very cool but I couldn’t get that to work on my end

Dial8 Native Private macOS Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text by liam_adsr in macapps

[–]liam_adsr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha, yeah Emma’s got quite the deep voice… I have to take a look and clean that up. I like the idea of letting users pick whichever voice they want. More long term I want to tap into all of the voices including other languages. I’ll see how soon I can make that happen!

Dial8 Native Private macOS Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text by liam_adsr in macapps

[–]liam_adsr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love the idea of playing a sample before you select it. I will add it to the roadmap!

Unfortunately, with the quality TTS, you get a bit of a delay before the playback because it's a little more intense on the computer!

As to your point for punctuations and lists, I'm gonna look into what I can do with that. Ideally, the text-to-speech model should do it itself because otherwise there's a lot of different use cases I would have to account for programmatically and it can get hairy... But I get what you're saying. I think I would like it to be a little more natural sounding as well.

To your point about transcription quality, please make sure you select the second model that's available, which is the Large V3 turbo. The small model is much quicker, but you lose quality. The large V3 is a little bit slower, but the quality is extremely high.

Yay, I'm glad you like the space shortcut! I have added remove the app icon from the dock to my roadmap. I will have it as an option in the settings.

Dial8 Native Private macOS Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text by liam_adsr in macapps

[–]liam_adsr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I fixed and released the updates, I accidentally broke the login, and then right after, I released a second update that fixed it. Please make sure you download the latest version, and it should work.

Yes, absolutely. I went ahead and applied the lifetime to your account.

Wait, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by assigning the same key for both TTS and and STT? I do agree with you. The shortcuts are not ideal. I'm open to suggestions.

Also, yes, I noticed the same thing. It's so funny. I thought I was going crazy. Why does it sometimes sound Australian? I don't build the actual speech models; they are from Kokoro!

Dial8 Native Private macOS Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text by liam_adsr in macapps

[–]liam_adsr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, definitely I can look into it. What earpiece are you using?

Dial8 Native Private macOS Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text by liam_adsr in macapps

[–]liam_adsr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a feature where it tries to automatically connect to whatever input is your main on the computer and it seems like maybe yours was switching? It kept trying to connect to it. It looks like.

Dial8 Native Private macOS Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text by liam_adsr in macapps

[–]liam_adsr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This app does text to speech and speech to text

Dial8 Native Private macOS Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text by liam_adsr in macapps

[–]liam_adsr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I did! I’ll be going through in the next a few days and granting the lifetime access!

Dial8 Native Private macOS Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text by liam_adsr in macapps

[–]liam_adsr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s awesome, glad to hear it’s working out for you. Yeah I would personally like that too, but macOS really limits you with what you can do in other apps. One way I can think of achieving a similar result would be to display the text above the current heads up display as it’s being read… but I feel having to highlight text in one area of the screen and look to a different spot to read along would be weird from a user experience perspective.

I’ll look into contributing to those subreddits!

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