mpdaugherty

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Founder of Quill Meetings - personal, private productivity (https://quillmeetings.com)

Previously, launched Syndicates and lead Venture at AngelList. Hacker at heart.

https://github.com/mpdaugherty http://www.mpdaugherty.com

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Comment · 1 year ago
We do this at quillmeetings.com - the audio stays on your device and is transcribed by whisper. We also do speaker splitting and recognition with a combination of models. If you share or sync notes/meetings they are e2e encrypted.

FYI, the transcript-only product is free forever (it's local, so why not?), but generating AI notes, interpreting screenshots if you enable that, etc. are in the Pro plan and do require using a cloud API.

Comment · 1 year ago
We did a lot of work at https://www.quillmeetings.com to build a diarization & speaker recognition pipeline that works locally on mac and windows. Basically, we can create embeddings of parts of the audio, like you might create embeddings for text for a RAG system, and cluster them (simplifying a lot of details from the "last 80%" that has taken a lot of effort to get working...)

The speaker recognition can't be as perfect as listening to each stream separately like Zoom itself can do, but it also learns your contacts over time and can recognize voices for ad-hoc in-person meetings, etc. which I've found really magical since we launched it.

Comment · 11 years ago
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There's nowhere I'd rather work right now than AngelList - our motto in hiring is "Would I start a company with this person?", so all of my coworkers are amazing, skilled people.

Together, we're not just funding 40+ startups per month - we're connecting these startups to a diverse group of investors whom they can reach out to for advice, connections, etc. And for the investors, this is a 10X improvement over any other way to invest (https://t.co/7AmuxYWHe3).

Fundraising is a complex market with multiple sides, so we are looking for great engineers who are excited to tackle this problem and streamline the entire market.

Our other business is matching people to their next startup job. On AngelList Talent, we believe in transparency (all jobs have salary and equity ranges disclosed).

This model has led to tremendous growth, but we still have a lot to do. There's room here for any engineer or designer to have a huge impact on the next iteration of AngelList Talent and change the lives of thousands of your peers.

Comment · 12 years ago
AngelList - San Francisco, CA and New York, NY https://angel.co/angellist/jobs/97-engineer

There's nowhere I'd rather work right now than AngelList - our motto in hiring is "Would I start a company with this person?", so all of my coworkers are amazing, skilled people.

Together, we're not just funding 40+ startups per month - we're connecting these startups to a diverse group of investors whom they can reach out to for advice, connections, etc. And for the investors, this is a 10X improvement over any other way to invest (https://t.co/7AmuxYWHe3).

Fundraising is a complex market with multiple sides, so we are looking for great engineers who are excited to tackle this problem and streamline the entire market.

Our other business is matching people to their next startup job. For jobs, we believe in transparency (all jobs have salary and equity ranges disclosed).

This model has led to tremendous growth, but we still have a lot to do. There's room here for any engineer or designer to have a huge impact on the next iteration of AngelList Talent and therefore change the lives of thousands of other engineers and designers.

Apply via AngelList and mention that you saw Mike's message on Hacker News.

Comment · 13 years ago
AngelList - San Francisco, CA

We are a small team making a big impact. You can read about some of the work we've been doing recently here: http://techcrunch.com/tag/angellist/

Help us transform venture capital and startup hiring. Looking for full-stack engineers and designers with great portfolios.

Apply via AngelList ;)

https://angel.co/angellist/jobs

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Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks, Sean. I was using London so my results would be comparable to the parent's.
Comment · 14 years ago
True, that is quite good inside the GFW. As a comparison, I am in Beijing in an apartment from 2002, with a DSL connection that China Unicom sells as 4Mbps (the best I could buy here):

Beijing ping - 26ms down - 2.53Mbps up - 0.53Mbps

Shanghai ping - 148ms down - .83Mbps up - .52Mbps

London ping - 410ms down - .19Mbps up - .15Mbps

Comment · 14 years ago
Looks like this is doing exactly what it's supposed to, then!
Comment · 14 years ago
I agree that it doesn't really sound like him, but the voice is far better than most Chinese computer voices that I've heard and is totally understandable.

Seems like my years of learning Chinese and living in China are about to become useless...

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