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surprisetalk ◴[] No.37744391[source]
Privacy issues aside, it's really cool to see a new category of device!

I've been actively searching for something that will allow me to "write" my essays while I'm driving.

I've tried voice memo apps for iOS, and the transcription stinks for everything I've tried.

Rewind's transcriptions for meetings works great, so I'm cautiously optimistic

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Sidenote: I've been loving Rewind as a company, but I'm a bit worried about how they're approaching security.

They store fantastic metadata[1] in their sqlitedb locally, but they recently started encrypting the DB, which is great, BUT I want to be able to poke around and see EXACTLY what's being recorded.

[1] https://kevinchen.co/blog/rewind-ai-app-teardown/

I've been trying to get a script like the following working, if anybody has pointers!

    sqlite3 -readonly -bail -hexkey $(security find-generic-password -w -a '' -s ai.rewind.data-account) \
      ~/Library/Application\ Support/com.memoryvault.MemoryVault/db-enc.sqlite3 -cmd .tables
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1. jliao18 ◴[] No.37744678[source]
I believe Rewind used all MacOS/iOS system API to do OCR (you can try it in shortcut) and Speech-to-Text.

For example - OCR - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision/recognizing...

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2. internetter ◴[] No.37745425[source]
it uses (or, at least, used) Whisper