Rewind Pendant: a wearable that captures what you say and hear

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

Have you tried using some other speech recognition software to do the transcription afterward? In my experience Otter.ai and YouTube (uploaded as a private video) both work great for this.

I think OpenAI also has Whisper (https://openai.com/research/whisper), but I've never used it.

Whisper works great, but there was a bit too much friction going from voice memo -> transcription -> notes.