| Here's an idea for a product I had. Tell me if you think it's ridiculous and if something like this has been attempted. So, speech-to-text transcription is amazing and I've become very dependent on it for voice typing. Unfortunately, on Linux and specifically, it's really tricky to find something that works at the operating system level. There are tools for Windows and Mac, and what I really need is something that will do it in any program. Not a browser extension, not an IDE extension, because then you're forever looking for does this tool have voice support. And you end up having, like what I have now, three or four Whisper subscriptions.<br><br>And many more. And you free yourself from the keyboard literally, you begin to want to use it at all your computers on my laptop. And some of them, my desktop can run a whisper, my laptop really can't. And you don't want to be spending a bunch of time provisioning separate environments.<br><br>So my idea is for a mini PC, think something like the Raspberry Pi or Orange Pi, but not presented as an enthusiast product so much as a little edge device and many more A box for all intents and purposes which runs on device a very efficient speech model like Whisper and it does on hardware local inference. Everything is optimized for this one workload. It has a USB out and the USB out it functions as a HID device and it sends the transcribed text and so on. Influence on the device and straight out USB.<br><br>What this means is you can plug your voice keyboard, which I think is obvious name, into anything. You can have it bound to your desktop for most of the time, you go away for traveling for a while, you pack your box. So it's really analogous to a keyboard.<br><br>Now what I was thinking to myself as a stupid idea is yes, you could do this stuff on device, you could use Claude, maybe it's too niche. But it could be quite creative for people who are really into voice typing and want a way to. And if it had Bluetooth support, your little box, your voice typing centerpiece could also work with your tablets, your phone and you could sort of extend around it. |