I started dictating instead of typing and basically never went back. This is how I now get my thoughts out into a document, a Slack, an email. I really can’t function without it now. However two things kept bothering me. The first was confidentiality. I was talking about contracts, half-formed ideas, things about my team, and sending it to someone else’s server to be transcribed. The more I leaned on him, the more he bothered me. I wanted a version where sensitive things would never leave my machine. So this is the first thing we created. Pea has a completely on-device mode. Turn it on and your audio will be transcribed locally and never uploaded. You can run it with WiFi off and it still works. The second was that these apps clear up what I said, but they don’t get what I was trying to do. I would reply to Josh with “The deck looks good, cut slide four” and get back a clean transcript of exactly that. Useful, but I still had to write the actual email. I wanted him to read the reference and hand me the finished thing. So the Pea has two modes, both always on. It is easy to give orders. You talk, it writes clean text, no guessing, no surprises. You don’t want a model second-guessing you while you’re just taking notes. Intended mode is second. You disagree, and depending on what you’re doing, Peale writes what you actually meant. that’s the whole point. Personal when it matters, and it concludes the idea rather than simply scripting it. Would love feedback, especially on intent mode. This is the part I’m most excited about and the part I want to get right the most.
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