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Enhancing TalkTastic: Features for Improved Editing and Contextual Learning

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First off, love TalkTastic and using it a lot. Been thinking through a lot of where I end up having to edit more heavily/consistently on the same points, and wanted to share several things that I think would make TalkTastic even more powerful:

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    The ability to configure a list of common names or acronyms. This is because I'll frequently reference executives (or my wife, whose name has one of three common spellings) who aren't in the explicit context, and I always have to go back and edit the spelling. Talktastic should be able to let me specify or learn nouns from other contexts and save them. Also important since I'm in a very technical field, and there's just a lot of acronym soup and terms that aren't in the explicit context that TalkTastic can't otherwise know.

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    The ability to set some simple context, and tell TalkTastic up top what context to use. i.e. hit F5, say "this is a note of appreciation to the team" or "I'm thinking out loud" as these need wildly different tones/formatting, which aren't obvious from the context, but can create significant rework of what TalkTastic otherwise puts out.

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    Related to both, the ability to spit out two paragraphs that I can choose from, when TalkTastic realized that I'm in a technical context and it's not sure how to best transcribe. For instance, if I'm going down a technical rabbit hole in a response, nearly always TalkTastic cleans up the details and the critically important stuff I talked through is missing, and then I have to scrub super carefully, or go back to the transcript and merge things. I'd almost prefer it to spit out a "I think this is right, but here's exactly what you said, in case I got something wrong." Better still would be the way to paste my corrections back to TalkTastic, so it could learn (I frequently do this when working with ChatGPT directly-- I give it my edits back, and ask it to summarize the edits and tone/language tweaks, and save those for future work).

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    And following up on that point: since I've started using TalkTastic more, I've used ChatGPT less, and it feels like there's less explicit learning because there's no feedback loop on the final tweaks I made back into the system. Some way to tell TalkTastic to suck down the final version sent/posted, would be amazing, even better with a question or two. "Oh, you seem to use a more friendly tone. Do you want me to do this for you next time?" or "In Slack, you always use emojis to start paragraphs and always tag at least one person with a note of appreciation at the end, do you want me to start working this in for future slack messages?"

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    Matt Mireles
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    So, addressing common names etc is the second item on our list after the microphone fixes Kyle Lubieniecki mentioned: We're adding personal writing instructions where you'll be able to configure lists of names and acronyms. We're going to provide extensive context and customization options, with a very high character limit - I'm thinking 100k characters / 25k tokens / 15k words. For additional features, we're adding writing filters and different writing modes in future updates. Regarding explicit learning and feedback, this ties into a larger initiative where we're completely revamping the UI. Now that Jordan Baird's joined us, we can interact directly with the text field, which enables us to learn from user changes. Instead of having windows in the upper right corner, we'll inject and update text directly, making the UI contextual to your cursor position.

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    Seth Blank
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    That’s awesome!!!

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    Seth Blank
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    Very excited for these updates as they come

  • Avatar of Devo at Talktastic
    Devo at Talktastic
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    Ohh great feedback Seth Blank. Thank you for sharing.