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TTS is absolutely horrible on iOS. I have nearly driven into a wall when trying to use it whilst driving and it goofs up what I've said terribly. For the love o

TTS is absolutely horrible on iOS. I have nearly driven into a wall when trying to use it whilst driving and it goofs up what I've said terribly. For the love of all things holy, will someone at Apple finally fix text to speech? It feels like they last touched it in 2016. My phone can run offline LLMs and generate images but it can't understand my words.

galleywest200 10mo ago
> I have nearly driven into a wall when trying to use it whilst driving and it goofs up what I've said terribly. People should not be using their phones while driving anyways. My iPhone disables all notifications, except for Find My notifications, while driving. Bluetooth speaker calls are an exception.
wolvoleo 10mo ago
It sounds like you mean STT not TTS there?
- giancarlostoro 10mo ago
  You're right, in my rage I typod, its really frustrating, even friends will text me and their text makes no sense, and 2 minutes later "STUPID VOICE TO TEXT" I have a few friends who drive trucks, so they need to be able to use their voice to communicate.
  - wolvoleo 10mo ago
    I have to say that OpenAI's Whisper model is excellent. If you could leverage that somehow I think it would really improve. I run it locally myself on an old PC with 3060 card. This way I can run whisper large which is still speedy on a GPU especially with faster-whisper. Added bonus is the language autodetection which is great because I speak 3 languages regularly. I think there's even better models now but Whisper still works fine for me. And there's a big ecosystem around it.
    - nomel 10mo ago
      I wonder what the wattage difference is between the iPhone STT and Whisper? How many seconds would the iPhone battery last?
  - delecti 10mo ago
    Better speech transcription is cool, but that feels kinda contrived. Phone calls exist, so do voice messages sent via texting apps, and professional drivers can also just wait a bit to send messages if they really must be text; they're on the job, but if it's really that urgent they can pull over.
    - jimbokun 10mo ago
      They can also use paper maps instead of GPS.

galleywest200 10mo ago

> I have nearly driven into a wall when trying to use it whilst driving and it goofs up what I've said terribly. People should not be using their phones while driving anyways. My iPhone disables all notifications, except for Find My notifications, while driving. Bluetooth speaker calls are an exception.

wolvoleo 10mo ago

It sounds like you mean STT not TTS there?

giancarlostoro 10mo ago
You're right, in my rage I typod, its really frustrating, even friends will text me and their text makes no sense, and 2 minutes later "STUPID VOICE TO TEXT" I have a few friends who drive trucks, so they need to be able to use their voice to communicate.
- wolvoleo 10mo ago
  I have to say that OpenAI's Whisper model is excellent. If you could leverage that somehow I think it would really improve. I run it locally myself on an old PC with 3060 card. This way I can run whisper large which is still speedy on a GPU especially with faster-whisper. Added bonus is the language autodetection which is great because I speak 3 languages regularly. I think there's even better models now but Whisper still works fine for me. And there's a big ecosystem around it.
  - nomel 10mo ago
    I wonder what the wattage difference is between the iPhone STT and Whisper? How many seconds would the iPhone battery last?
- delecti 10mo ago
  Better speech transcription is cool, but that feels kinda contrived. Phone calls exist, so do voice messages sent via texting apps, and professional drivers can also just wait a bit to send messages if they really must be text; they're on the job, but if it's really that urgent they can pull over.
  - jimbokun 10mo ago
    They can also use paper maps instead of GPS.