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nozzlegearyesterday at 6:37 PM1 replyview on HN

> Completely disregards the context of the current input, for example, on Hacker news might involve special technical and IT vocabulary.

Does any voice assistant do this right now? Genuine question, I don't actually know. It sounds useful as long as it's not invasive.


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mh-yesterday at 9:22 PM

Any of the LLM-based ones should pull this* off - so that's to say.. none of the popular commercially available ones, yet?

Alexa+ does, but I don't use it for anything except kitchen timers and home automation triggers, so I can't speak to how well it works in a longer conversation.

Zoom's meeting notes excels at this, Google Meet is terrible at it. Meet mishears our company name about 90% of the time; various attendee names are a coin toss.

* "this" being: context consideration in speech-to-text/transcription.