If you're setting this up yourself instead of using a lab's built-it speech functionality, you can run a small LLM in parallel, on a local model or small model like Haiku, that acts as a gate for either doing TTS on the response or not. Its only job is to decide if the transcription it receives is of someone being done talking or if that person is likely to still be mid-thought or mid-sentence.
I know it's not the perfect solution for you, but I use a voice recorder and send the LLM the transcript. And my god is it working great.
Usually I just explain the things I want it to do. The longest was 30 minutes rambling of explaining the methods section of a paper in non chronological order. It worked unbelievable good for me.
I think it's true though. They don't care about Windows anymore, that's plain as day. Most of their software is now cross-platform. Who cares about Windows if you are selling Azure instead and people can run Linux on that?
I would have considered a Leaf but they have NMC batteries. Also, the earlier versions had terrible battery cooling issues. Give me a Leaf with an LFP and I would buy one.
There are many different NMC battery chemistries, and they are still evolving. It's likely that whatever you think would be a problem (because NMC) wouldn't actually be a problem for you. But yes, the first two generations of the Leaf weren't exactly great EVs and there's a lot of FUD and missing based just on the Leaf.
~25% of Apple's revenue came from services in FY25 (and 50% from iPhone, ~25% from other hardware). They made $415B in that year, so ~$100B from services alone!
Services revenue is mostly just 30% from App Store Sales. This means every time a user clicks a pro account for ChatGPT or Claude on their phone, Apple makes more money than they could make with a self deployed model.
You're not wrong that they collect a ton of rent off AI apps, rumours a few weeks back claimed $900m in fees last year with 75% of that just from OpenAI.
But services revenue is:
- their 36% share of Google Ads for being default search engine, about $21 billion/year of pure profit
- their IAP fees, court testimony reveals 75% profit margin
- their first-party subscriptions, there's an antitrust about iCloud that alleges 52% of iPhone users are on paid plans and that the profit margins are 80-ish percent!
I often use it while I’m walking and tell it to not respond until I initiate a conversation.
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