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  • Nope. Definitely got a reason, and it’s stated. There have been countless reworks of keyboards, for example, that promise lots of benefits, but it’s a problem that doesn’t need solving for most people. What’s a 30% increase in typing speed with a 200% learning curve going to do for most people? Not much. I’ve seen hundreds come and go throughout the years in engineering teams, and people always go back to the thing they learned on.

    That being said, as someone else pointed out in this thread, this is essentially just a remix of stenography. They’re trying to make it seem more useful than it is, which whatever, it’s their product. The thing that is most problematic about this particular product is the cognitive dissonance of staring at someone like this guy making weird faces and not speaking, where you’re actually listening to his phone.

    Now, is this a solution for mute people? Quite possibly. Is it better than natural language conversational translation by a device in normal conversation? Not a chance.







  • I’ve not run such things on Apple hardware, so can’t speak to the functionality, but you’d definitely be able to do it cheaper with PC hardware.

    The problem with this kind of setup is going to be heat. There are definitely cheaper minipcs, but I wouldn’t think they have the space for this much memory AND a GPU, so you’d be looking for an AMD APU/NPU combo maybe. You could easily build something about the size of a game console that does this for maybe $1.5k.









  • No offense, but this literally talked about nothing at all. The last half is just some ideas that don’t follow a cogent line from one thing to the next.

    You should try writing a script about a topic, and sticking to it . Especially if you don’t feel comfortable about speaking off-the-cuff facts about what you’re delivering. It connotes a lack of understanding and knowledge about a subject.

    Ask yourself when speaking about something: if a listener took something away from this speech, what would it be? Then write for that prompt.