Show HN: I made iOS app that converts any speech into clear&structured text

Show HN: I made iOS app that converts any speech into clear&structured text(letterly.app)

10 points by iilfat 2 years ago | 6 comments

Hello!

I left my job, gathered with friends and focused on creating this iOS app. The idea is simple: it turns speech into well-structured clear text which you can save as a note.

It's not only transcription. We used OpenAI tech, fine-tuned prompts, trained it with our texts, and added one-button rewrite options.

Recently, doctor was gaving me recommendations. I switched on my app and got bullet points of his advice.

Any comment would be super valuable, guys! Thank you in advance!

bradknowles 2 years ago |

Hmm. Are you sending all this text over to a server somewhere to be processed, or are you doing all this work locally on-device?

If you're doing the former (like Grammarly), then I'm not interested.

If you're doing the latter (and you can prove it), then it sounds very interesting!

iilfat 2 years ago | |

Hello! Apologies for the delay in response. We use "the former" approach and process the text on a remote server, sorry :) Processing complexities demand substantial resources that are beyond the capacity of end user devices. However, I want to emphasize that we do not keep any personal data.

iilfat 2 years ago | |

It would also be very helpful if you could share insights on why this is important.

bradknowles 2 years ago | | |

It's pretty simple. I want all of my data stored and processed locally.

That's why I'm switching away from cloud cameras to cameras that use a local NVR.

There are some things that I can't avoid having processed or stored in the cloud, but I'm going to be local-only for everything I can.

indiebarsa 2 years ago |

Just a short feedback. There’s a need to make groups of notes, now they seem to be scattered

iilfat 2 years ago | |

Thank you very much, yes, indeed, we are currently actively considering these