Text-to-speech and speech-to-text, both involve text, which has characters. Nota... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		recursive on July 3, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Voice Isolator: Strip background noise for film, p... Text-to-speech and speech-to-text, both involve text, which has characters. Notably, this does not.

chankstein38 on July 3, 2024 [–]

I'm not trying to argue with you but just want to point out, this is why they made an equivalence between time and characters. We know 1min of audio == 1000 characters so now we know how to translate characters to time.

recursive on July 3, 2024 | [–]

If that's really it, then why the obtuse intermediate conversion unit? Just bill by the minute.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact