[SCdF]

I currently use Talon, which I note is not in your benchmarks.

I can't find any documentation on how Aqua works, or how it compares, so I'm not sure it's meant to be a replacement / competitor to Talon? What are you configuring? How are you telling it that you like "genz" style in Slack? Can I create custom configurations / macros?

One thing I like about Talon is it's not magic. Which maybe is not what you're going for. But I am giving it explicit commands that I know it will understand (if it understands my accent obvs), as opposed to guessing and constructing a human language vague sentence and hope that an llm will work it out. Which means it feels like something I can actually become fast with, and build up muscle memory of.

Also that it's completely offline, so I can actually run it on a work computer without my security folks freaking out.

[the_king]

We're building something different, but there is some overlap. Aqua is built for max speed, while keeping accuracy high. To achieve that, inference runs in a datacenter (for now).

You can customize Aqua using custom instructions, similar to ChatGPT custom instructions, and get some Talon functionality from it:

In my own, I have:

1. Breaking the paragraphs with three or four sentences.

2. Don't start a sentence with "and".

3. Use lowercase in Slack and iMessage.

4. Here are some common terminal commands...

[willwade]

Aqua voice is nothing like talon. I wouldn’t bother trying to compare. It’s a dictation tool. Just entry. Not commands. But it’s bloody impressive. You don’t need to learn anything - you just talk like you would talk to someone across the way from you

[SCdF]

Oh, from the video I got the impression it was more than that, based on it recognising app contexts and the like. I guess that's mostly just icing on the cake for the core dictation part.

[pablopeniche]

>recognizing app contexts

Users have different preferences on the text format they input into different apps. Aqua is able to pick up on these explicit and implicit preferences across apps – but no "open XYZ app" commands, yea