Since i’m not creative at all, but do have alot of brain-farts over the day, my “problem” was to get them out somehow before they vanish into nothingness.
Siri is like the worst kind of assistant, even worse than Alexa, yes i said it, sue me!
Being a total Apple Fanboy, this hits home hard, but we have to face reality as well, Alexa is very Robotic and can do very few things, but the things she CAN DO, she does perfectly without failing ever, while Siri, just keeps trying and failing badly most of the time.
In a time where participation trophies worth somethings, this may mean somethings but at the end of the day its just a waste of time, but with me being not exactly the typing person (especially NOT on a mobile device) a solution is required to prevent /dev/null to fillup…
With the idea to do some dictation while driving or waiting for somebody, basically using the time to do something useful and write some things I was thinking about, responding to emails or writing to this blog. The problem is you can’t really type when driving or usually have the hands do something other than holding the rectangle in your face, (yeah call me Boomer, but this is just something i avoid to do at all times)
With Siri being the worst of them all, more or less, the idea was to find another solution. say Hello to OpenAI’s /v1/audio/transcriptions.
a tiny bit of php code (like 40 lines) a Apple Shortcut i can use on my Mac, Phone and the AppleWatch.
I can just record whatever I want, basically just rambeling about whatever .. the phone is recording me, sends the audio to OpenAI and returns a text of whatever i have said in seconds. the phone/mac puts it in the clipboard or sends it straight to my blog in a email. and i can take it from here.
this whole post i just “told my phone” while walking around in the neighborhood. (just manually added the photos and hit enter a few times to make the paragraphs.
Is that cool or is that cool? 🙂
There’s still some problems, like some header information are not getting through, but this is probably just because of my quick-and-dirty code.
I’m gonna make that a little bit better later.
Too bad this is not really working on the Apple Watch, because I’m not exactly the type of person that speaks to my phone in public or whatever. But there is a base64 solution, i just need to change the code i wrote a bit and test if the watch can actually hold a few minutes of audio in it’s memory, i will take care of this later, since this would be epic to use the watch to dictate while driving.
here is how the shortcut looks like, this version however, does not work on the apple watch (phone and osx only)
as it stores the audio-file first, and thats a nono on the applewatch.
