lnalx
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Comment · 2 months ago
I agree. For my use case, I chose to prioritize latency over accuracy, but it's always difficult to find the right balance between the two. There is no easy answer.
Comment · 2 months ago
I personally tested all the STT models for my real-time translator (https://fliptalk.ai). From language detection and accuracy in a noisy environment to the most important point: latency.
At the moment, Soniox STT v5 is definitely the best, and I'm impressed by its performance. It's good that Google released Gemini-3.5-Transcribe, and it beats every other model on accuracy, but it definitely needs a bit more work on latency, which is the most important factor for STT apps.
Comment · 1 year ago
Simply put, without VC funding, these services would cost hundreds of dollars per month, and nobody would pay those prices. Companies like Anthropic can offer $20 plans precisely because they have venture capital backing.
Consumers will always gravitate toward the more affordable option.
Comment · 3 years ago
I ditched all apps for habits, focus, goal oriented. I realized my brain could do that for free and without technology, with some work.
Comment · 3 years ago
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Comment · 3 years ago
> Ruby's poor performance hobbles it even in places it's supposed to be good (twitter was rewritten to Scala over rails).
All performances are relative. Ruby or Python is very performant for 99% of websites, generally the bottleneck is the database.
Rails has enabled Twitter to develop and iterate faster. But now that the social network has to manage several tens of millions of users, the 200 req/s of Rails are no longer sufficient.
And Ruby in 2013 didn't have the same performance as in 2023. Hardware no longer had the same performance, too.
(https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2013/new-tweets...)
Comment · 3 years ago
I still remember the day I met John Warnock as if it was yesterday.
John's humility, despite his monumental success, taught me to always keep my feet on the ground. His vision inspired me to push boundaries in software development. But above all, it was his passion that kindled a fervor within me to harness technology for change.
John Warnock's passing is a massive loss for the tech world. My heart goes out to his loved ones during this time. His legacy, however, will continue to shape the industry, inspiring countless others just as he had inspired me. Goodbye, Mr. Warnock. You will be missed.