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Canonical's New AI Tool Wants You to Talk to Ubuntu Instead of Type (itsfoss.com)
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[–] 89 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Offline-only speech-to-text, integrated with the desktop for push-to-talk voice typing? That's the kind of AI that I'd like to see. Actually add features that can help people without harming their rights. I'm still moving new machines to Debian but this is nice.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Also how is speech to text AI? It has existed for decades, obviously a lot better now but I don't think I'd consider it "AI"

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago*

    There's been ML and non-ML ways of doing STT over the years. as far as I recall. The current best implementations are ML-based. In coloquial terms ML algorithms are AI. We used to call them AI in the 2010s, before AI was (un)cool.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    I have been using a speech-to-text AI system the last day, and I'm using a whisper large 3 turbo Voxstral Small (Mistral) and a rewording model that fixes the sentence but doesn't rewrite it, and it's almost perfect. I'm using European-hosted AI through cortecs.ai, and it's really cheap.

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