Good morning all. It’s Wednesday, mind the humps.
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Oh hai all
Now the hope is that the gapcover pays my oustanding amounts - hold thumbs
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Why? Because you can’t?
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Morning all
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Ahoy ‘n good mornin’ hearties! ‘tis International Natter Like a Pirate Day. Everythin’ I post today will sound like dis. Brace yourselves. Now where’s me bleedin’ parrot gone? Arrrr, it’s a pirates life fer me.
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Exactly that - well i can kind of hold them 
But yea my boxing days are over
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I have discovered that you can make your own stickers in WhatsApp. Poor @SIGSTART will now be bombarded by custom stickers of the doggos. Here is Jake being a Derp.
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Morning all
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Harro.
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Feeling frozen here 
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Morning all. Happy Friday.
@Shrike is right - what’s with the weird cold snap all of a sudden? Was cleaning my pool yesterday thinking it’ll be great for swimming on the weekend. Now we’re looking at 5°-12° temps and rain?
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Good afternoon people.
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Morning all.
Does anyone make effective use of speech-to-text functionality?
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Morning all. Hope you didn’t pack all the winter jumpers away just yet.
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Every time I pack the winter stuff away there we get hit again.
Can’t even see Gillooly’s Interchange.
Not really. I tried the built in speech to text in word once to take notes.
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In what context are you looking to use it? I know in home assistant, for example, it’s as simple as feeding a text string to the TTS engine, but it takes a second and is not suitable for on-the-fly translation. If you’re leaning towards AI for realistic voices and intonation, that’s a whooooole nother kettle of fish.
Edit: scratch all that, you want speech to text, not my way around. Still, context would probably be important.
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I needed feedback from people on certain things regarding a database migration I was doing. I got a 9 minute voice note of someone looking through a spreadsheet umming and ahhing their way through, changing their opinions half way through their sentances (with leniency for English being their second language). It was unusable, scrubbing 9 minutes of audio for bits and pieces of info was not going to happen.
I don’t know if there’s any software for Mac that I could recommend, but I used this software
Took a couple language models to get one that worked right, but when it did, it worked really well. And afaik it was all done on my PC. I still struggled reading it, but was able to eventually get what I needed out of it, but that was more on the person who recorded.
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Man I hate voice notes.
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Thanks for the feedback ya’ll — @Avatar | @murfle
For context: I tend to deliberate too much on text-based communication, as a result, it can take me hours or even days to get an email out—specifically email and Teams-based communication. I don’t care much for punctuation in informal channels such as WhatsApp. And that is where I have found STT struggles, or falls flat, in applying any punctuation or grammar through dictation. Or perhaps I don’t understand how to use or apply it effectively.
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