You… found that at a thrift store?!

what an amazing find! (Seriously. that’s a lovely handmaid quilt. whoever gave that up…) The cat is also lovely,

They’re so incompetent, you can’t even rely on them to crash a speeder in a dangerous way.

Pretty sure this guy with a lighter is a greater threat. Burn all his buddies in a warehouse fire.

I’d say Jedi and clone troopers, but like. Yeah. More b1s were killed by other b1 incompetence.

It’s a bed.

That makes your cat smell like flowers.

Sometimes it’s nice to let someone else do the work.

Weird?

Cute!

Only way this is heresy is you left the lights on default.

You’re supposed to change the rainbow vomit pattern to something more nauseating. (or whatever you enjoy. It’s your printer.)

I prefer to think of these cats as being more like Charlie Chaplin.

Cats and Chaos?

Maybe that’s more of a trio rather than 2 duos.

Need the fruit cartridge for the tomatoes

Opportunist… “It’s an empty glass. I drank it while you were arguing.”

Don’t tell him. Cat wants to see how dense he is.

bet that guy creates a lot of PEBKAC though.

Kids are great.

Kids are even better when you can hand them back to mommy and daddy.

At least until they wake up.

The. It becomes a bowl of extremely cute chaos.

I’d like to see the source that says Dragon’s WER in the 90s was 3-5%. I used Dragon in the 2000s and it just wasn’t comparable to the current state of the art.

https://dragon-medical-transcription.com/history_speech_recognition.html, for example. a lot of adverts and awards were given to it (admittedly awards like PC Mag that were probably paid advertising… but that’s why I went with Open AI’s assessment on whisper at 2%.) Dragon was boasting 99% accuracy after (admittedly months) of training; and it frequently reached it. there were some gotchas in that- the months-long training was a big one. The other was that you frequently had to slow down and be careful to enunciate that you don’t have to do with modern systems (including the MS versions of Dragon- they bought it out at some point)

whisper.cpp is an opensource implementation, although I’m not certain exactly how open.

It’s on the MIT license, if that helps. I take issue with anything OpenAI is involved in. for oh-so-many reasons.

You’re only partially correct about input speed. If you want to dictate an email then yes you need to think about each word you want to say and the order in which to say them. Coupled with an LLM that problem is diminished because you can just kind of have a conversation with the LLM and tell it to draft an email.

and how much of that conversation with an LLM is “No, what I want is…” because it assumed something; or just straight up hallucinated or the typo made it go off on a tangent?

As for whisper, I can find sources that are saying for American-English speakers in a not-noisy environment (aka the best case scenario,) the model has a word error rate between 2-8%. For reference, Dragon NaturallySpeaking had a WER of 3-5%. So I wouldn’t say that Whisper has made any substantial improvements, and they’re OpenAi. you can trust them if you want. I don’t think that’ll work out well in the long run, though.

I remember Dragon SpeechDragon Naturally Speaking saying the same thing in the 90’s. It’s improved, but not enough to make it useful as more than an aide for people who can’t type. I do agree, that for simple accessibility, it should be integrated into every field, but I doubt it’s ever going to take over.

As others have noted, that it’s only technically true that dictation is faster than typing. In a practical sense, there’s a fair number of reasons why that’s not the case, including that usually thinking about the entry is what’s the slowest, and also the errors in both are typically what slows people down.

there’s also the problem of, for example, keeping entries confidential. You don’t want to speak your passwords where others can hear you.

Well the mask is a steno mask

Theoretically most people will speak faster than they type. You have to type around 180-200 wpm to be faster than speaking.

(I say theoretically, because usually typing speed ratings also ding you for errors, and uh, speech transcription isn’t really there, either.)