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In Progress
🎉Early Beta Release of BlabbyAI Windows App is Here!
Hey Voice Typers! We’re excited to announce that the early beta version of BlabbyAIWindows app is finally here! Want to Try the Beta Now? Download the Beta Version Your enthusiasm and support have motivated us to bring this to you as soon as possible. However, there’s something important you should know before downloading: ⚠️About the Warning Message The app is now signed with a valid code-signing certificate. However, since it's a new release, Windows may still show a warning message. This is normal—Windows takes some time to fully trust new certificates. If you're comfortable proceeding, you can follow the steps below to bypass the warning. Here’s how to bypass the "unknown publisher" warning: If you encounter any unexpected behavior while using the app, don’t worry! You can easily close the app from the system tray to get things back to normal. We’d love to hear your feedback to make the app even better! Feel free to Request a feature / report a bug in the dedicated feedback portal. https://blabbyai.featurebase.app/ Thanks for being part of this journey! We can’t wait to hear what you think.
BlabbyAI Dev 4 months ago
High Priority
Pinned
In Progress
🎉Early Beta Release of BlabbyAI Windows App is Here!
Hey Voice Typers! We’re excited to announce that the early beta version of BlabbyAIWindows app is finally here! Want to Try the Beta Now? Download the Beta Version Your enthusiasm and support have motivated us to bring this to you as soon as possible. However, there’s something important you should know before downloading: ⚠️About the Warning Message The app is now signed with a valid code-signing certificate. However, since it's a new release, Windows may still show a warning message. This is normal—Windows takes some time to fully trust new certificates. If you're comfortable proceeding, you can follow the steps below to bypass the warning. Here’s how to bypass the "unknown publisher" warning: If you encounter any unexpected behavior while using the app, don’t worry! You can easily close the app from the system tray to get things back to normal. We’d love to hear your feedback to make the app even better! Feel free to Request a feature / report a bug in the dedicated feedback portal. https://blabbyai.featurebase.app/ Thanks for being part of this journey! We can’t wait to hear what you think.
BlabbyAI Dev 4 months ago
High Priority
Planned
The return of the whitespace!
Just thought I would let you know, same thing as before, one character of trailing white space. Oddly it seemed to go away for a while. If it sheds any light on this - I trigger STT with a keyboard shortcut almost entirely (ie, I almost never click the little button). perhaps the keyboard shortcut is adding to the character string. Also: It's only a minor nuisance and far from a dealbreaker but I thought I'd keep up with their reporting
Daniel Rosehill 3 days ago
Planned
The return of the whitespace!
Just thought I would let you know, same thing as before, one character of trailing white space. Oddly it seemed to go away for a while. If it sheds any light on this - I trigger STT with a keyboard shortcut almost entirely (ie, I almost never click the little button). perhaps the keyboard shortcut is adding to the character string. Also: It's only a minor nuisance and far from a dealbreaker but I thought I'd keep up with their reporting
Daniel Rosehill 3 days ago
The ability to customize your own prompt for the new rewriting feature.
This new feature, rewriting, that you guys just added is honestly super cool. There’s a ton of ways it could be put to use, but I wish there was an option to set up your own custom prompt. When you're writing, you end up dictating the same tasks over and over, when you could just put them in the prompt once and then use shorter cues to hit the mark, instead of repeating yourself every time you want something rewritten.
Web 6 days ago
The ability to customize your own prompt for the new rewriting feature.
This new feature, rewriting, that you guys just added is honestly super cool. There’s a ton of ways it could be put to use, but I wish there was an option to set up your own custom prompt. When you're writing, you end up dictating the same tasks over and over, when you could just put them in the prompt once and then use shorter cues to hit the mark, instead of repeating yourself every time you want something rewritten.
Web 6 days ago
Planned
Option to turn off the special icon that pops up when you highlight text for the new rewriting feature.
It’d be great if there were an option in this new rewriting feature to turn the special icon on or off when you select text: Honestly, it’s kind of annoying as is. Personally, I’d much rather use hotkeys instead of having that icon pop up every single time.
Web 6 days ago
Planned
Option to turn off the special icon that pops up when you highlight text for the new rewriting feature.
It’d be great if there were an option in this new rewriting feature to turn the special icon on or off when you select text: Honestly, it’s kind of annoying as is. Personally, I’d much rather use hotkeys instead of having that icon pop up every single time.
Web 6 days ago
Pause and cancel buttons
Great work with all the improvements! Here are a couple that I can’t believe I didn’t think of before: Pause: The ability to pause a recording before finishing the recording. Cancel: The ability to cancel a recording / discard the cache and start again.
Daniel Rosehill 7 days ago
Pause and cancel buttons
Great work with all the improvements! Here are a couple that I can’t believe I didn’t think of before: Pause: The ability to pause a recording before finishing the recording. Cancel: The ability to cancel a recording / discard the cache and start again.
Daniel Rosehill 7 days ago
Planned
I'd love to hear more sound effects when transcription is activated or deactivated.
It would be great to add more sounds to activate and deactivate transcription, because when you activate transcription hundreds of times a day, these same sounds start to get pretty boring. Of course, this option is not super important, but overall it adds a pleasant feeling to using this great product.
Web 13 days ago
Planned
I'd love to hear more sound effects when transcription is activated or deactivated.
It would be great to add more sounds to activate and deactivate transcription, because when you activate transcription hundreds of times a day, these same sounds start to get pretty boring. Of course, this option is not super important, but overall it adds a pleasant feeling to using this great product.
Web 13 days ago
Display mode: tally light
Here is another UI idea that might actually be kind of cool. A “tally light,” in broadcasting, is a little light that illuminates when a camera/source is live. Another really minimal display mode could be a tally light display that relies entirely on the user utilizing shortcuts to start and stop the dictation. A black dot could be used when the source is not recording, and it could illuminate red when the source is in use. A couple of ideas for UI color coding are attached.
Daniel Rosehill 15 days ago
Display mode: tally light
Here is another UI idea that might actually be kind of cool. A “tally light,” in broadcasting, is a little light that illuminates when a camera/source is live. Another really minimal display mode could be a tally light display that relies entirely on the user utilizing shortcuts to start and stop the dictation. A black dot could be used when the source is not recording, and it could illuminate red when the source is in use. A couple of ideas for UI color coding are attached.
Daniel Rosehill 15 days ago
Planned
Display mode: corner-bound 'dot'
My favourite display mode is the dot, and in most cases it is nice, but sometimes it does get in the way of UI elements. I was trying to think of a way to keep the convenience and minimal UI while minimizing the amount of times it obstructs or obscures. One thought that came to mind is the dot, but instead of following the text elements, it is bound to a particular corner of the screen. Perhaps bottom left or bottom right might be the best preference depending on whether people are mostly browsing in left to right or right to left.
Daniel Rosehill 15 days ago
Planned
Display mode: corner-bound 'dot'
My favourite display mode is the dot, and in most cases it is nice, but sometimes it does get in the way of UI elements. I was trying to think of a way to keep the convenience and minimal UI while minimizing the amount of times it obstructs or obscures. One thought that came to mind is the dot, but instead of following the text elements, it is bound to a particular corner of the screen. Perhaps bottom left or bottom right might be the best preference depending on whether people are mostly browsing in left to right or right to left.
Daniel Rosehill 15 days ago
In Progress
Make standalone app work with Chrome extension.
It's quite often that you copy and paste stuff between different tabs, especially if you work with prompts. And it's quite often that you first want to dictate something and then paste a block of code or just some copied thing. And if you use the stand-alone Windows app, then your dictation will override the current content and the clipboard. In general, it would be nice to have an ability to add like an “exclusion” apps to windows app so Chrome extension could capture control+space hotkey first
Aleksandr Vinogradov 22 days ago
In Progress
Make standalone app work with Chrome extension.
It's quite often that you copy and paste stuff between different tabs, especially if you work with prompts. And it's quite often that you first want to dictate something and then paste a block of code or just some copied thing. And if you use the stand-alone Windows app, then your dictation will override the current content and the clipboard. In general, it would be nice to have an ability to add like an “exclusion” apps to windows app so Chrome extension could capture control+space hotkey first
Aleksandr Vinogradov 22 days ago
In Progress
Yearly pricing option
Hey, Sorry if this is something that I'm just not seeing, or maybe I signed up for the monthly option to test it out. It would be really nice to have the ability to pay for this yearly. For a lot of small business folks like me, even if there’s no monetary incentive to do so, it’s often easier to do yearly subs for good tools just to avoid the hassle of having to capture and account for the receipts every month, etc.
Daniel Rosehill About 1 month ago
In Progress
Yearly pricing option
Hey, Sorry if this is something that I'm just not seeing, or maybe I signed up for the monthly option to test it out. It would be really nice to have the ability to pay for this yearly. For a lot of small business folks like me, even if there’s no monetary incentive to do so, it’s often easier to do yearly subs for good tools just to avoid the hassle of having to capture and account for the receipts every month, etc.
Daniel Rosehill About 1 month ago
Speech to text prompt library you're welcome to use
Hey! Until you bring out a Linux app, I have to make do with my own very crude Whisper transcription client to fill the gap (there are lots of locally hosted Whisper models but I haven’t found one that uses the API and has direct text input yet). I use this for doing the kind of transcription I do with your tool, but also to capture texts that I then get formatted for use in common situations like creating emails, to-do lists, notes, etc. In the course of making these various prototypes, I've built up a small library of system prompts for what I call text transformation. I'm not sure if this is the official term, but I'm sure that you're familiar with the idea System prompts, which run the dictated text through an LLM to apply some basic transformations I mentioned before that I think it would be really amazing if there was something like a default library in Whisper AI that had the most common of these ready to go so that users could actually not just do direct transcription but also some reformatting or maybe as a secondary functionality. In case you ever do consider moving with the idea, I created an inventory of some of those system prompts earlier this week on GitHub, which you are more than welcome to use for this purpose: https://github.com/danielrosehill/Speech-To-Text-System-Prompt-Library
Daniel Rosehill About 1 month ago
Speech to text prompt library you're welcome to use
Hey! Until you bring out a Linux app, I have to make do with my own very crude Whisper transcription client to fill the gap (there are lots of locally hosted Whisper models but I haven’t found one that uses the API and has direct text input yet). I use this for doing the kind of transcription I do with your tool, but also to capture texts that I then get formatted for use in common situations like creating emails, to-do lists, notes, etc. In the course of making these various prototypes, I've built up a small library of system prompts for what I call text transformation. I'm not sure if this is the official term, but I'm sure that you're familiar with the idea System prompts, which run the dictated text through an LLM to apply some basic transformations I mentioned before that I think it would be really amazing if there was something like a default library in Whisper AI that had the most common of these ready to go so that users could actually not just do direct transcription but also some reformatting or maybe as a secondary functionality. In case you ever do consider moving with the idea, I created an inventory of some of those system prompts earlier this week on GitHub, which you are more than welcome to use for this purpose: https://github.com/danielrosehill/Speech-To-Text-System-Prompt-Library
Daniel Rosehill About 1 month ago
In Progress
Anti-hallucination support, pause tolerance
Hey! I'm aware that the underlying engineering in getting all this to work is very complicated and that this would be really hard to achieve, but I said I would throw it out nevertheless. As you helpfully pointed out, ASR speech recognition has the amusing quirk of suffering from hallucinations much as large language models do generally. The manifestation in ASDR being that it will add nonsensical language like “thank you for watching” to the end of a transcription! I've really come to use speech to text as my daily typing method entirely thanks to your great app! So I still feel like I'm discovering how I use it as opposed to just text typing. One thing that I really like to do is to pause for thought while I'm in the middle of dictating. The problem is that if you leave long enough of a gap, you greatly increase the probability of hallucinations and at a certain point they're unavoidable. I don't really have any thoughts on what you could try to do to avoid this. If the pause detection is too aggressive then you run the risk of not capturing user text. But seeing as you've already made this amazing extension, I figure you know a lot more about the engineering than I can speculate about. Perhaps something like a user pause detection threshold setting would be helpful and allow those who dictate cleanly and those who like to pause for thought to choose a setting that best reflects their unique style.
Daniel Rosehill About 1 month ago
In Progress
Anti-hallucination support, pause tolerance
Hey! I'm aware that the underlying engineering in getting all this to work is very complicated and that this would be really hard to achieve, but I said I would throw it out nevertheless. As you helpfully pointed out, ASR speech recognition has the amusing quirk of suffering from hallucinations much as large language models do generally. The manifestation in ASDR being that it will add nonsensical language like “thank you for watching” to the end of a transcription! I've really come to use speech to text as my daily typing method entirely thanks to your great app! So I still feel like I'm discovering how I use it as opposed to just text typing. One thing that I really like to do is to pause for thought while I'm in the middle of dictating. The problem is that if you leave long enough of a gap, you greatly increase the probability of hallucinations and at a certain point they're unavoidable. I don't really have any thoughts on what you could try to do to avoid this. If the pause detection is too aggressive then you run the risk of not capturing user text. But seeing as you've already made this amazing extension, I figure you know a lot more about the engineering than I can speculate about. Perhaps something like a user pause detection threshold setting would be helpful and allow those who dictate cleanly and those who like to pause for thought to choose a setting that best reflects their unique style.
Daniel Rosehill About 1 month ago
Add custom spelling globally
[Anonymous user]: I really like the tool. It's a significant productivity boost. What I kind of miss, though, is the ability to ensure the correct spelling of names—like company names, project names, and personal names—across all of my languages. Do I really have to add them to each language individually? That feels quite tedious.
BlabbyAI Dev About 1 month ago
Add custom spelling globally
[Anonymous user]: I really like the tool. It's a significant productivity boost. What I kind of miss, though, is the ability to ensure the correct spelling of names—like company names, project names, and personal names—across all of my languages. Do I really have to add them to each language individually? That feels quite tedious.
BlabbyAI Dev About 1 month ago
Backup And Export Functionality
Hey! I thought that I had captured this here when I was importing my previous list of suggestions. Forgive me if I'm duplicating. I really like the idea of expanding upon a personal dictionary, although I noticed that when I stop speaking for a while and the tool begins hallucinating, it includes my dictionary words. Any chance you could clarify if the entire dictionary is passed on each current and if so whether that adversely affects token consumption? That aside: My only hesitation about adding lots of interesting modes and uploading and developing a personal dictionary is the same as the one that I have with any other SaaS product, app extension or otherwise: I'm fine with creating lots of data in the cloud so long as I can periodically export it, so just in case you vanish off the face of the earth, I know that I'll have something to fall back on. Perhaps something like a simple CSV or JSON export functionality could be implemented to allow the user to periodically grab a backup copy of their personal dictionary for safekeeping.
Daniel Rosehill About 2 months ago
Backup And Export Functionality
Hey! I thought that I had captured this here when I was importing my previous list of suggestions. Forgive me if I'm duplicating. I really like the idea of expanding upon a personal dictionary, although I noticed that when I stop speaking for a while and the tool begins hallucinating, it includes my dictionary words. Any chance you could clarify if the entire dictionary is passed on each current and if so whether that adversely affects token consumption? That aside: My only hesitation about adding lots of interesting modes and uploading and developing a personal dictionary is the same as the one that I have with any other SaaS product, app extension or otherwise: I'm fine with creating lots of data in the cloud so long as I can periodically export it, so just in case you vanish off the face of the earth, I know that I'll have something to fall back on. Perhaps something like a simple CSV or JSON export functionality could be implemented to allow the user to periodically grab a backup copy of their personal dictionary for safekeeping.
Daniel Rosehill About 2 months ago
A feature for post-dictation text reformatting.
There are a number of voice taking apps and productivity tools on the market whose secret sauce is essentially applying a system prompt on top of a dictated text passed through Whisper. From what I've seen, this actually isn't really that hard to do. I use a custom AI frontend and have created dozens of fairly simple system prompts to do everything from converting text into to-do list format through to making it more professional, making it more concise, etc. I know that the current feature set is focused really on dictation and this might be overstepping the boundary into productivity tools, but on the other hand it may actually make sense and save people from requiring multiple components to do this very useful and everyday task. I shared a library of text transformation system prompts on Hugging Face yesterday, which of course are totally open source, and if the idea ever sounds appealing then you are free to use it. https://huggingface.co/datasets/danielrosehill/text-transformation-system-prompts
Daniel Rosehill About 2 months ago
A feature for post-dictation text reformatting.
There are a number of voice taking apps and productivity tools on the market whose secret sauce is essentially applying a system prompt on top of a dictated text passed through Whisper. From what I've seen, this actually isn't really that hard to do. I use a custom AI frontend and have created dozens of fairly simple system prompts to do everything from converting text into to-do list format through to making it more professional, making it more concise, etc. I know that the current feature set is focused really on dictation and this might be overstepping the boundary into productivity tools, but on the other hand it may actually make sense and save people from requiring multiple components to do this very useful and everyday task. I shared a library of text transformation system prompts on Hugging Face yesterday, which of course are totally open source, and if the idea ever sounds appealing then you are free to use it. https://huggingface.co/datasets/danielrosehill/text-transformation-system-prompts
Daniel Rosehill About 2 months ago
The ability to use the app in Chromium and embedded Chrome browsers.
So I am fairly sure that this would be impossible but as usual I thought I would put it out there just as an idea (I guess for those normal people not using Linux, the desktop app will make this irrelevant!): I sometimes use browsers in embedded configurations, things like Electron wrappers or in the current instance Ferdium which is a Workspace OS type tool. Although these are running Chromium under the hood as far as I know, they don't have access to any of the extensions. Hence, while the UIs are very familiar, I greatly miss my favourite productivity tool and have to resort to the awful experience of using a keyboard (how did we ever survive?) Maybe there's some work around or if not hope the Linux app comes to fruition one day!
Daniel Rosehill About 2 months ago
The ability to use the app in Chromium and embedded Chrome browsers.
So I am fairly sure that this would be impossible but as usual I thought I would put it out there just as an idea (I guess for those normal people not using Linux, the desktop app will make this irrelevant!): I sometimes use browsers in embedded configurations, things like Electron wrappers or in the current instance Ferdium which is a Workspace OS type tool. Although these are running Chromium under the hood as far as I know, they don't have access to any of the extensions. Hence, while the UIs are very familiar, I greatly miss my favourite productivity tool and have to resort to the awful experience of using a keyboard (how did we ever survive?) Maybe there's some work around or if not hope the Linux app comes to fruition one day!
Daniel Rosehill About 2 months ago
In Progress
I would like to be able to dictate punctuation such as open parentheses and close parentheses, as well as open quote and close quote.
Daniel Newman About 2 months ago
In Progress
I would like to be able to dictate punctuation such as open parentheses and close parentheses, as well as open quote and close quote.
Daniel Newman About 2 months ago
Upload content while dictatiing
The system is excellent and performs exactly as intended, with impressive text conversion and explanation capabilities. The mods are also working great, providing clear explanations. However, I would suggest adding a feature that allows users to upload content (such as code snippets or text) before interacting with specific mods, like translation or coding mods. This would enhance functionality, especially when working with code where we need to submit it first before requesting modifications. Overall, I'm very satisfied with the well-organized system, reasonable pricing, and will continue using it long-term.
Naif Essa 2 months ago
Upload content while dictatiing
The system is excellent and performs exactly as intended, with impressive text conversion and explanation capabilities. The mods are also working great, providing clear explanations. However, I would suggest adding a feature that allows users to upload content (such as code snippets or text) before interacting with specific mods, like translation or coding mods. This would enhance functionality, especially when working with code where we need to submit it first before requesting modifications. Overall, I'm very satisfied with the well-organized system, reasonable pricing, and will continue using it long-term.
Naif Essa 2 months ago
Re-transcribe
Sometimes transcription doesn't go through. So it would be great if I can look up for previous recordings and re-transcribe them.
Issam Alameh 3 months ago
Re-transcribe
Sometimes transcription doesn't go through. So it would be great if I can look up for previous recordings and re-transcribe them.
Issam Alameh 3 months ago
