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That's neat! Would love to try it, but am also on iOS :/

With the risk of sounding like a broken record - what are people using on iOS? I've been using `SwiftKey` for a while as it has dictionaries for languages that the native keyboard doesn't have. But I would love to switch to something else, as M$ has been shoving AI features on it that I am definitely not interested in.

So far in this thread I've seen Grammarly and Nintype. The former seems to suffer from the same things as SwiftKey, while the latter doesn't look it's maintained (last update 7y ago). I don't mind a paid app, as long as it doesn't invade my privacy.


What do you mean? iOS has a native swift option.


Native iOS is significantly worse than SwiftKey and doesn't support multiple languages without having to switch the keyboard constantly. In SwiftKey you can mix languages.

I'd also be very interested in SwiftKey alternatives, since MS already almost killed it once.


I have two languages defined in iOS (English and French) and the native swift keyboard recognizes which language I'm swifting in.


Pretty much what `cloogshicer` said.

I am interested in something that has support for multiple languages + swipe support.


iOS has that.


Mate...it does not, it's not like I haven't tried. Try to set Bulgarian keyboard on the native iOS and let me know exactly what you see.

https://www.apple.com/uk/ios/feature-availability/#quicktype...


I have two languages defined in iOS (English and French) and the native swift keyboard recognizes which language I'm swifting in.

Maybe this is supported only for specific language combinations.


It is indeed supported only for some languages - you can check the link for which ones. And it's not only about recognising multiple languages, but actual functionality that it's missing. It doesn't have a Bulgarian dictionary and support for swipe in BG, which is what I need...


Better recommendations on Spotify: https://riffradar.org/

Choose your genres (and more filters) and get auto updating playlists from your music library. Also just added a new feature - select a few (or one) playlists and create a "mirror", with tracks belonging to the artists of your selected playlists.


Been working on and off on a Spotify recommendation egnine after getting tired of Spotify’s repetitive recommendations.

You get to choose the genres you're interested in, and it creates playlists from the music in your library. They get updated every day - think a better, curated by you version of the Daily Mixes. You can add some advanced filters as well, if you really want to customise what music you'll get.

It works best if you follow a good amount of artists. Optionally you can get recommendations from artists that belong to playlists you follow or you've created. If you don't follow much or any artists, then you should enable that in order for the service to be useful, as right now that's the only pools of artists the recommendations are based on.

https://riffradar.org/


Been working on and off on a Spotify recommendation egnine after getting tired of Spotify’s repetitive recommendations.

You get to choose the genres you're interested in, and it creates playlists from the music in your library. They get updated every day - think a better, curated by you version of the Daily Mixes. You can add some advanced filters as well, if you really want to customise what music you'll get.

It works best if you follow a good amount of artists. Optionally you can get recommendations from artists that belong to playlists you follow or you've created. If you don't follow much or any artists, then you should enable that in order for the service to be useful, as right now that's the only pools of artists the recommendations are based on.

https://riffradar.org/


This is really cool! Is the underlying tech tied heavily to Spotify? I'm a YouTube Music user and would love to use a service like this


Thank you!

Some parts are, but easily abstractable. I do have it on my list to support other services, but haven't had much time lately to tackle new features.


I've been working on and off on something [1] that tries to address this problem through somewhat manual curation. You choose what genres you're interested in, and get auto updated playlists created from your music library.

I have a few other experimental features in the pipeline that will expand the music selection, but they are not there yet.

[1] https://riffradar.org/


I used iCloud in the past, but found that syncing between a few devices sometimes left my notes in a weird state - sometimes overwritten, missing, etc. I switched some time ago to https://github.com/remotely-save/remotely-save with backblaze and I periodically sync to a git repo for a second backup. No issues since then.


Built my own Spotify recommendation egnine after getting tired of Spotify’s repetitive recommendations.

You get to choose the genres you're interested in, and it creates playlists from the music in your library. They get updated every day - think a better, curated by you version of the Daily Mixes. You can add some advanced filters as well, if you really want to customise what music you'll get.

It works best if you follow a good amount of artists. Optionally you can get recommendations from artists that belong to playlists you follow or you've created - if you don't follow much or any artists, then you should enable that in order for the service to be useful.

https://riffradar.org/


I'm using https://spokenly.app/ in local mode, which is free. Very happy with it. It supports a bunch of models, including whisper and parakeet. Right now I'm mostly using parakeet v3 on my desktop, but it tends to do a bit more errors, although it is very fast. I cycle betwen it and Distil-Whisper Large V3.5, which is a bit slower.

On iOS I'm also using the same app, with the Apple Speech model, which I found out to be better performing for me than the parakeet/whisper. One drawback for the apple model is that you need iOS/Mac 26+ - and I haven't bothered to update to Tahoe on my mac.

Both of the models work instantly for me (Mac M1, iphone 17 Pro).

Edit: Aaaand I just saw that you're looking for speech-to-speech. Oops, still sleeping.


Looks cool!

One suggestion - in the demo mode it would be nice if you provide a sample GPX file which you can try right away.


Hi vulkoingim!

Thanks for your interest and the suggestion. I added it to the demo mode.

There was a bug in the PWA, you need to unregister the service worker in your browser otherwise the App will never update on your device.


Built my own Spotify recommendation egnine after getting tired of Spotify’s repetitive recommendations.

You get to choose the genres you're interested in, and it creates playlists from the music in your library. They get updated every day - think a better, curated by you version of the Daily Mixes. You can add some advanced filters as well, if you really want to customise what music you'll get.

It works best if you follow a good amount of artists. Optionally you can get recommendations from artists that belong to playlists you follow or you've created - if you don't follow much or any artists, then you should enable that in order for the service to be useful.

https://riffradar.org/


> you can get recommendations from artists that belong to playlists you follow or you've created

Does this include the "Liked Songs" playlist? I'm terrible at actually following artists.


Unfortunately not. I oversaw that this was a separate scope when I requested my initial permissions for the app and am still to request an extension.

But if you have any kind of playlists - it would work.


Question: do you plan to use some sort of ML recommendation system ?


No, at least not at this point. I have quite a few ideas that are waiting to be implemented, before I can think of anything ML related - if ever.


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