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Trying out the app on Firefox gets me this error:

NotSupportedError:

AudioContext.createMediaStreamSource:

Connecting AudioNodes from AudioContexts with different sample-rate is currently not supported.

I would add that this really needs to be a native app with ability to use it within Microsoft Word, which itself has a decent voice to text tool built in.

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Sorry about the Firefox error! Agreed on the sentiment behind native app — we plan to get Aqua in as many places as possible asap. For product iteration, you can’t beat the speed the browser affords.

Make an Electron app that simply wraps your website! Just build in best-practices updating of the wrapper as well from day one, in case you want to ship improvements to the wrapper or start to move more things to client side processing.

As a side benefit, you get real estate in people’s docks and desktops :)

Would that help with the problem of integration though? What would be absolutely killer would be to emulate a USB HID keyboard or something, which would make it usable with pretty much everything, though there are definitely some security considerations there. Or if there are higher-level APIs to hook into that could work, but I would guess those would also require native function calls.

The way Google's keyboard works on Android, but on my Linux computer (and my Android phone) would be my dream here. I'd pay $10 a month for that for sure.

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