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Re: Tutorial: Windows/Android privacy de-googled STT optimized for speed

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Paul wrote:
> That's "dsnote" in Ubuntu using a Whisper model.
> I read the text of the lines above, and the model
> missed the "It's" on the recorded attempt. A
> previous attempt was OK.
> 
> Microphone was a Blue Yeti. Which doesn't have AGC.
> And the level wasn't all that high either, maybe
> -24dBm or so. I recorded the microphone first in
> Audacity, to see I had to hold the mike two inches
> from my face to get a signal.
> 
> While the spec for the microphone claims a 20-20000Hz
> response (which would be 3dB down at the ends),
> it is clearly a "voice" microphone and it
> cuts off the high frequencies. That's one of the reasons
> the fans in the room didn't get picked up. So as far as
> being a "live" mic, it's a bit of a "dull potato" as
> mics go. But it does seem to give a decent result.
> 
> And when you "blast" the four lines above at the model,
> then stop and wait for the conversion, it must have taken
> at least 10-15 seconds to do the amount of text in the picture.
> It "feels" slightly better, if you feed it a sentence at a time.
> Feed it just a few words. It seems happier that way. Dragon
> Naturally Speaking has nothing to worry about :-)

Hi Paul,

Thanks for testing it out. I think there's a reason that the WhisperIME 
defaults to the 435MB model instead of the "tiny" model of 40MB. 

I agree with EVERYTHING you said (I'd never disagree with anything that is 
logically sensibly stated). What I want to say is that when it's quiet, it 
works "just OK" for the tiny model. 

I'm gonna switch to the default 435MB model and see if that does better.
But I agree with you. YMMV. 

When it's noisy (like in a vehicle), the tiny model really sucks.
So I guess we're doomed to have to use the largest model most of the time.

I'm told (by the Internet) that the Futo Keyboard works better as it's more 
modern and it uses the C++ whisper models (if that matters). 

If I were to do it over again, I'd try that first.

But I do THANK YOU VERY MUCH for testing this out for the team.
People like you are wonderful because we all benefit from your efforts!

What's really neat is that Windows/Linux controls the phone wonderfully.
I never have to touch the phone when I'm sitting at my desk.
 a. adb controls the phone
 b. scrcpy/sndcpy displays the phone
 c. the keyboard types into the phone
 d. the mouse taps on the phone

It's really neat having the phone show up as nearly two feet tall!

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