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I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button
- cratermoon 1y agoScotty in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home picking up a Macintosh mouse and saying "computer"
- lotyrin 1y agoYes. It's incredible to me that this project seems to have been completed without knowledge or any intent to replicate this scene, that it seems to be entirely coincidental.
- teuobk 1y agoMy first thought as well! Here's the scene for those who are unaware: https://youtu.be/90eg_erObDo?si=E0ZbU_k-H7ANLqcZ&t=179 https://youtu.be/90eg_erObDo?si=E0ZbU_k-H7ANLqcZ&t=179
- ubercore 1y agoThe movie is so corny, but remains my favorite!
- richrichardsson 1y agoWas mildly disappointed that there wasn't a microphone in this project. Still pretty cool though.
- amelius 1y agoAnother Apple mouse with the charging connector on the bottom side ... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jwU1ZvVFMXw https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jwU1ZvVFMXw
- jsheard 1y agoThe Magic Mouse's charging port always gets memed on but to be honest that's the least offensive thing about it, since the battery goes for months between charges. The real problem is that it has some of the worst ergonomics of any input device on the market today for absolutely no reason besides aesthetics. If they moved the charging port it would still be a terrible mouse.
- skydhash 1y agoIt’s fine if you only use it for a few minutes a day (executive desk). If you care about ergonomic, you have to get used to weirdness.
- Andrew6rant 1y agoAgreed. I would call Apple's Magic Mouse the worst mouse of all time if it didn't have the cool feature of working as both a trackpad and a mouse. Haven't really seen that elsewhere
- dhosek 1y agoIt’s a kind of nice feature, but I’ve been a solid magic trackpad user instead since they first introduced the whole magic keyboard/trackpad/mouse set of accessories.
- wellthisisgreat 1y agoI think Microsoft had some kind of a curved mouse that did that?
- bogantech 1y agoIt's better than the puck mouse and Mighty Mouse at least
- tummler 1y agoThis is cool and I love it. Wish I had more to say than that haha.
- vpribish 1y agosame
- rietta 1y agoI love it! "Computer...Ah, hello computer!" immediately comes to mind.
- dhosek 1y agoMaybe it’s because I’m just recovering from attending my 35-year college reunion, but I had a memory return of being in the college computer lab and telling someone to use the mouse to move the cursor, so they picked it up and waved it in the air. That Star Trek IV scene was a reminder that a computer mouse isn’t as universally intuitive of a device as it might seem. (And on a tangentially-related note—I’ve been driving a Ford Mustang convertible this weekend and the fact that some screens are touch screens and some are not has been a bit of a source for confusion to me. I think I don’t have the same issue with my Prius because there the steering-wheel cursor keys control a screen that’s on a different plane from the main dashboard. Also, I really miss my radar cruise control.)
- ben_w 1y agoLate 90s/early 00s, I tried to show my grandmother how to play cars on my Performa 5200. Her natural hand position — presumably from a lifetime of pen use — rotated it 90°, which meant the mouse movement absolutely did not follow her wrist movement.
- IlikeKitties 1y ago> Maybe it’s because I’m just recovering from attending my 35-year college reunion, but I had a memory return of being in the college computer lab and telling someone to use the mouse to move the cursor, so they picked it up and waved it in the air. I've seen this behavior in people that have seen other people use mouses for over a decade before, especially my Mom. It's my personal universal sign to immediately stop teaching that person anything. If you get shown a mouse move across a table like a pug, get explained that moving it up and down, left and right is a relative motion and you pick it up and wave it in the air you are just signaling that you do not want to learn. My mom and her friends pestered me for years as a teen to show them how computers work and how to use them. When I tried to teach them the basics they were dismissive as if the computer had to conform to their way of thinking how the interaction should work. I learned to not engage with those people at all. Funnily enough, a decade later after they actually wanted to learn it they figured it out themselves.
- Tsarp 1y agoFor folks looking to running speech to text locally(in the context of dictation) and dont want to do a subscription there are a few apps that run whisper large turbo locally (optimized to run really fast on apple silicon). 1. https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper (dictation + transcription) 2. https://carelesswhisper.app https://carelesswhisper.app (does dictation only, and does it really well; cheapest) 3. https://superwhisper.com https://superwhisper.com (both local and hosted models + lots of bells and whistles, but much higher pricing)
- sipjca 1y agoI’m the author of the post and will also be releasing an open source speech to text app in the coming weeks. It’s what I’ve been using for months, but packaging it for people It’s going to be extremely simple, and hopefully easy enough to use. MIT licensed, free
- Void_ 1y agoHere’s super fast and cheap alternative to Superwhisper: https://whispertype.com https://whispertype.com
- DougBTX 1y agoDo any of these support streaming dictation, to show text progressively while dictating?
- 7839284023 1y agoYou forgot about https://tryvoiceink.com/ https://tryvoiceink.com/ 19 Dollar and Open-Source.
- czarofvan 1y agoI've looked at the codebase. The ones I listed do a significant amount of audio processing to get better transcripts, avoid the "Thank you" issues with whisper large turbo, handle bluetooth and noisy environments. Hopefully VoiceInk gets there. It is a neat project and really well done for a first time dev but rough around the edges. Careless is ~20$ and if you just need dictation is the best option.
- mansoorsheriff 1y agoThis is a cool project. Enjoyed reading it.
- morphle 1y agoI have a bunch of these Apple Mouses for sale
- LuciOfStars 1y agoI'm sorry, did you just unironically say "mouses"? -_-
- morphle 1y agoApple Mice. English is my second language
- LuciOfStars 1y agoAh, okay -- sorry, thought you were being dense.
- stavros 1y agoThis is really cool, I love the simplicity of just flashing ZMK on it. Initially I thought it was an ESP32 Xiao, and got excited, but alas. Excellent project, either way!
- PeterStuer 1y agoJust admit it. You did it because of the Star Trek scene.
- oniony 1y agoIf they wanted to be non-destructive, then why not just interface with the DIN plug on the end of the existing cable?
- sipjca 1y agoBecause that is way less clean of a solution and would be a total pain to carry around
- CableNinja 1y agoI just recently dabbled in STT as a way to control my computer. Unfortunately, i dont know if i will continue working on it, because it quickly revealed that our current GUI configuration and how we operate our systems, just dont "flow" well with Speech to Text and operations one might expect. I think id need some additional ML or something, in order to even partly go any further forward in that project. Sure, I can add to the program I have currently to make it handle "any" task, but, with how we currently operate computers, and view content, there is not a way to avoid touching the keyboard and mouse entirely. Tbh im not even sure what i could propose to improve the gui for controlling the system star trek style.
- rcstanciu 1y agoDiane, Entering the town of Twin Peaks.
- DonHopkins 1y agoI made a three button Sun mouse into a pot pipe, with the bowl sticking out a hole in the middle "Adjust" button. https://www.techjunkie.com/retro-friday-the-3-button-mouse/ https://www.techjunkie.com/retro-friday-the-3-button-mouse/
- ij44 1y agoHe should use hydrogen peroxide to de-yellow the plastic. The treatment makes those old plastics look like new, from what I've seen.