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This is the closest thing to commercially viable non-invasive telepathy. And all you need is a Mac to use it.
@getmamoapp
lets you use dictation anywhere!
You can dictate in public and noisy environments and It will transcribe for you by reading your lips. No vocalization, additional hardware, or wearable mic required!
*watch with sound on🔊*
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round 2 lfg, buildspace has changed my life and I'm so excited to be doing s5!
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Symphonic is a wearable hands-free silent communicator.
Mouth what you want to say and Symphonic does the rest.
If you or anyone you know would find this useful, please repost this to get on the waitlist!
Any feedback is appreciated :)
cc
@_buildspace
@_nightsweekends
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"Introducing MAMO. <=>"
"MAMO is a multimodal interface that lets you talk to your computer without needing to make a sound. <=>"
"Powered by
@symphoniclabs
multimodal Silent Speech Foundation model. <=>"
Signup for MAMO beta here:
cc
@_nightsweekends
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SYMPHONIC UPDATE
Today I’m gonna show you what’s going on behind this door. Symphonic Labs is accelerating on the path to usable silent speech interfaces.
(see thread 🧵below)
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Incredibly grateful to the team at AI Grant. Thank you for believing in us! ❤️
Symphonic Labs has been accepted into Batch 3 :)
We are excited to announce the startups accepted into the third batch of AI Grant!
Check out the thread to learn more about the companies (listed A-Z):
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Super excited to share that
@SymphonicLabs
has been accepted into the
@southpkcommons
Founder Fellowship!
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@getmamoapp
lets you use dictation anywhere!
You can dictate in public and noisy environments and It will transcribe for you by reading your lips. No vocalization, additional hardware, or wearable mic required!
*watch with sound on🔊*
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@dubthaprophet
You and anyone who agrees with this are the problem. You deserve no love or respect from anyone.
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Looking for an insanely cracked designer with experience with branding, typefaces, and web design.
Drop your best work below or send me a DM!
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None of these tab clones, humane, rabbit devices are gonna make it long term, most are bound to be replaced by iOS18. If your phone can/could do it your product is already cooked.
When I drop, no iOS update will stop me, and everyone’s gonna wish their phone could do it.
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Here's my toy for
@_nightsweekends
season 4.
It's a silent hands-free communicator, and it currently works on two words.
Would love some feedback in the comments :)
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@_buildspace
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Symphonic waitlist members gave their feedback and we delivered.
The top two requests were:
- More natural dialogue.
- Getting it to work on someone else.
Also introducing my team member
@avery_chiu
!
CC
@_buildspace
,
@_nightsweekends
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Toured
@UWVelocity
garage and saw these gems from the past on display.
Canadian tech needs to look more like this again.
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❤️
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SF is so colourful, it makes Waterloo look monochrome. The brain drain makes sense now.
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@kodjima33
@AviSchiffmann
Ah ok my bad it wasn’t a real crackhead. So mocking them was better?
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Humane will become a case study for what happens when you don’t obtain a feedback loop early in product development. 5 years, over 100 engineers, and no external testers?
More consumer HW companies should ship alphas & avoid this. Don’t wait until after 5 yrs and raising 200M+.
it’s been a wild 72 hours ♥️
we are energized by the response to the ai pin.
our vision has remained unchanged since 2018, to build a stand-alone device and entirely new software platform, all from the ground-up for Ai. it was ambitious and infinitely challenging (perhaps
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This is a great program, if any of you are considering SPC founder fellowship for the fall please reach out to me. Happy to share details.
8/ Founder Fellowship apps are open.
We give founders $1M, bespoke support from the SPC team & the most talent-dense community in tech. So you have the best chance at pulling off the impossible.
Apply with or without an idea. We only require ambition.
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I’ve been told so many times to move to SF when I graduate. It’s not that we’re shying away. It’s that Canada’s culture of complacency and lack of real incentive to innovate and produce exportable products leaves many entrepreneurs with no option but to leave.
Younger Canadians are shying away from entrepreneurship, RBC report says
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As part of SF Deep Tech Week, join SPC and Symphonic Labs for product demos from companies working on the future of interfaces. Interested in demoing? DM us
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Major shoutout to the
@neurosity
team for providing team
@watolink
with a couple of their Crown headsets to experiment with! Looking forward to building something great with this :)
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@hardeep_gambhir
@crsamra
@avery_chiu
@onlychans1
@hud_zah
@ansonyuu
@sincethestudy
@thanosthinking
@omkizzy
@jonxuxu
@BigCrete
@jossmurphyy
@freemanjiangg
@KrishRShah
and many more I’m missing from
@socraticainfo
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SYMPHONIC MODEL
Previously we could only classify silent speech between a few pre-set sentences/words. Meet Jeffrey (our first user)! He can use Symphonic to silently communicate with a near limitless vocab.
- Inference <5s, accuracy roughly 70%
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For centuries, we have used our mouths to communicate. It has become the ultimate instrument every human has to communicate, and yet we still use our hands to communicate with natural language applications. Something is not adding up here.
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@FP_Champagne
An economy whose mortgage debt alone eclipses its GDP is not properly diversified, it’s over leveraged.
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Hey
@CBCNews
,
@UWaterloo
is planning to raise tuition for out-of-province Canadian students even though median household incomes are lower in almost all other provinces than Ontario. You should report on this.
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Things in the US (sf) you notice as a Canadian Pt 2:
-Very few people are shy, they talk to you
-People offer you their phone number before anything else (social media, etc)
-People will invite you to events quickly after getting to know you
-Parties end at a reasonable time
Things in the US you may notice as a Canadian:
-fruits taste much better
-so many more options shopping in-store
-some snacks here are straight up cancer
-restaurants have much larger portion sizes
-service workers smile and greet you more
gonna update this over time
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We reached 50 beta users in less than 24hrs, so we are capping the first wave.
Sign up here to get access in the next wave:
"Introducing MAMO. <=>"
"MAMO is a multimodal interface that lets you talk to your computer without needing to make a sound. <=>"
"Powered by
@symphoniclabs
multimodal Silent Speech Foundation model. <=>"
Signup for MAMO beta here:
cc
@_nightsweekends
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POV: OpenAI saves your product
cosmOS running gpt-4o + gemini on ai pin at the same time.
“wrappers” are for hip hop
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Was at an intersection where ppl were shooting fireworks unsanctioned for 4th of July, the cops came, the ppl fired fireworks at the cops, and the cops left. The ppl proceeded to celebrate the cops leaving by playing not like us by Kendrick Lamar.
God Bless America 🇺🇸
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I need everyone and I mean EVERYONE to pull up to the live tomorrow () and PLEASE vote for us! It would mean the world ❤️
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LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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In the next 🇨🇦 election I will vote for anyone who:
-eliminates federal income tax for anyone making <= 60k/yr CAD
-tasks the Canadian armed forces with building housing until it keeps up with population growth
-eliminates all corporate tax on startups in eligible
BREAKING
YOUR F*$KIN WALLET
Canadians now pay more in taxes than food, housing and clothing COMBINED
-The Fraser Institute.
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MAMO
this "toy" from
@crsamra
&
@avery_chiu
is crazy.
it's so simple yet revolutionary.
here is a video of me using it.
i'm still working on my toy. (coming soon)
drop a video of your toy in the comments.
i'll try a few and repost them later this week.
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@ericmigi
@ycombinator
Any chance you’d be willing to do a YC event at UWaterloo for current students?
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If you want to be an early adopter, fill out this form:
If you are a cracked HW or ML engineer and want to give humanity a new way to communicate with others and interact with technology, DM me.
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Things in the US you may notice as a Canadian:
-fruits taste much better
-so many more options shopping in-store
-some snacks here are straight up cancer
-restaurants have much larger portion sizes
-service workers smile and greet you more
gonna update this over time
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looking for poets, songwriters, and rap artists to chat with, DM me!
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Taste is king, traditional methods of market validation do not apply to consumer, it’s just virality, novelty, quality, and emotion that’s it. All this time I was gaslit into thinking otherwise. I need to believe in myself more.
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Thinking about making a symphonic dev kit. What would people want for it?
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Hey y'all, what's the best gpu service for training with cheap h100s, on-demand access, and one that lets you use your own docker containers?
-aws is poo poo
-lambda is booked
-runpod doesn't let you use docker
-andromeda is booked
-sf compute booked till end of june
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"If you want to try out MAMO in person, come to this event on Thursday. <=>"
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SYMPHONIC HARDWARE
Team Symphonic has been working on the first version of our custom hardware. It boasts a CMRR > 100db, and can stream our data at 1000hz over BLE. Oh and BTW our unit cost is 70% less than anything else currently available with the same data quality.
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SYMPHONIC INFRA
Building a dataset is expensive and time consuming. To solve this we bring the lab to the ppl. Simply put on our prototype and go about your day talking to ppl, and our system auto-segments and auto-labels data so we can build a dataset 10x faster.
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If you’re curious about what will advance personal computing, these are the companies to watch.
@Humane
Tab -
@AviSchiffmann
@augmentaltech
@WisprAI
@OpenAI
(assuming the Jony Ive collaboration is real)
Comment any others you think I’ve missed ⬇️
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@SymphonicLabs
just shipped an update to MAMO addressing highly requested improvements and features from our beta users, check them out below:
cc
@_buildspace
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And the reduction in mental effort to tweet this out without needing to use a keyboard is fucking awesome.
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Existing devices limit how AI can improve our abilities.
Our abilities are limited by inputs that are too slow, not always accessible, and context limited.
To solve this, I'm on a mission to augment the human experience naturally, contextually, & accessibly.
cc:
@_buildspace
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Don’t miss out!
announcing our biggest demo day of the year - showcasing projects, hacks, companies, exhibits, and everything in between!
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Often times people in the social sciences don’t have a good understanding of the tech they talk so much about. I have a required AI ethics course and it really just feels like the prof is arguing for less development.
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This mindset angers me because it destroys innovation. This is the mindset that holds countries like 🇨🇦 back. Someone doesn't always need to ask for something to want something. "Who needs cars, just walk" "who needs the internet, just go to the library"
This whole AI thing is remarkable to me -- it's the first tech development in my life that, to a first approximation, no consumer is asking for. It's not demand-driven. The dudes (almost all dudes) who run things have just decided we're getting it whether we want it or not.
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Anyone else trying to grab last minute drake tickets for the Toronto show?
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Workers in Canada are seen as “cheap” and are underpaid. This must change, or else this country will continue to suffer from brain drain.
So, a Canadian uni grad had a quite good job in Toronto on Bay Street in finance; he moved to NY, switched firms and his salary went from $60k (CAD) to US$320k; besides salary, his responsibilities went up and he's part of a team advising Fortune 500 boards on executive
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This is the reason why
@Humane
and
@rabbit_hmi
will fail.
@AviSchiffmann
’s Tab is differentiated enough and
@Meta
’s camera form factor actually makes sense. Low price is not a justification for rushed AI hardware, even if you got teenage engineering to design your frame.
"We think Alexa and Siri don't understand users as good as LLMs, and the LLMs don't have enough agency in your OS to act on your behalf, so we're building hardware to compete with them"
So if Siri / Alexa gets the right over-the-air update your product is obsolete
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@FP_Champagne
@Ford
@FordCanada
We have nearly all the rare earth minerals in Canada to make our own EV and our own car company, and yet here you are doing photo ops and openly encouraging US companies to buy our resources at a discount and underpay our labour. Not very innovative for an innovation minister.
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SYMPHONIC APP
Jeffrey can use Symphonic’s iOS app along with his device to communicate silently with others. We put this to the test at a recent symposium and let members of the public converse with Jeffrey without limits.
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silent speech + agents + Vision Pro. this is where I see things going
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Bullshit!
What about the doctors who will be taxed via capital gains after selling their practices to retire?
You are a clown who is doing everything to shrink Canada’s economy, expedite brain-drain, and destroy our standard of living as fast as possible.
We have a plan to deliver fairness for every generation.
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You are penalizing business creation and eliminating incentive to produce value. Please resign.
Tomorrow, our government is taking action to improve tax fairness for all Canadians. We want to live in a country where we make the investments we need - in housing, affordability, and economic growth - and where fairness prevails for all generations.
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When
@calder_white
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Voice interfaces are unpopular for a multitude of reasons: latency, cringe, privacy, and limited ability to edit what you say. These are all things that deter people from using voice.
But what if I told you you didn't need to use your voice? What if you could use your mouth
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Anyone in Canada know how to reach Mike Lazaridis, Jim Balsillie, or Doug Fregin? None of them have social media it seems.
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