Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking (apps.apple.com)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oasis-ai/id1668222944
OASIS AI transforms natural speech into polished writing—college essays, business emails, social media posts, journals, and more. Everything is instant, automatic and efficient. and efficiency. It’s very simple.
Let’s face it: humans communicate constantly, but we suck at it.
We want to use LLMs to go beyond Grammarly's error correction and Google Translate's word-for-word translation. Instead, OASIS refines your thoughts and intentions, choosing the perfect words to express your ideas in any format or language. The app gives you a first draft, a starting place, and then you’re in control from there.
OASIS started off as English–to-English, and we are now in the process of rolling out language translation and speech transcription for over 30 languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and Arabic. As a preview, the app enables English speakers to craft WeChat posts that mimic the casual writing of a native Mandarin Chinese speaker.
What do you think? What features should we add? How can we be better?
https://theoasis.com/
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 117 ms ] threadI can see how it'd be helpful for times when I know what I want to say but not how to say it.
Just ramble and it turns it into polished writing.
I feel like it opens up a new, more creative mode of thinking, different to internal monologue or writing. The LLM based summarisation leaves me with the core arguments + conclusions from the lengthy monologue & enables me to repeat myself or pause for lengthy periods to think.
I'm extremely excited about what we're building at OASIS. Both of us are will be here to answer any questions, comments, etc.
We’re experimenting and trying to do everything with the cheapest, smallest models we can, because ultimately we want to do it all on device
If you could summarize the content into a few words (similar to how ChatGPT names its chat thread), and I could generate a specific output type from that list in the history, that would be a game changer for me!
1. on homescreen, tap "Select Outputs" 2. de-select all the prompts: tap "select all" in the lower right twice and none of the prompts will be selected 3. record a new voice note 4. in the output view, tap "Add Outputs"
LMK if this works for you.
I wish I could record longer than 10min or if there were at least a chime to indicate the recording is ending / has ended. I also hope to get more of a TODO list I could then further organize. But what's there is pretty neat and already useful to me.
The key for me is that it's a widget on the watch face. Glance at watch and with one click and I'm recording. If I have to fumble around with my phone or whatever to find and open an app, click a button, etc, I'll likely have forgotten whatever brilliant idea popped into my head before I get the recording started.
What's the Android support looking like? :)
One note, I downloaded and dove right in with some nonsense and used up 17 of my trial tokens, unknowingly. It definitely made me understand how the app works but it was a surprise, and an expensive way to learn! Not trying to get them back but just a thought that there may be a friendlier way to introduce folks to the experience.
I see the app as basically “voice recorder plus” and in that regard it’s incredibly powerful. As you have the UX now, the app is more like “AI content creator that can only take voice input” which is less compelling and results in the initial flow you have now.
I think a more straightforward “record than choose output” makes a lot of sense. I could see how “choose then record” would be efficient if I always knew I wanted to create a blog post, for instance, but absent that it’s overall off putting to have to think ahead of time what you want your output to be.
If the initial (and usual) experience is “record something then we’ll ask what you want to create” I think it will unfold for new users much more clearly.
Who doesn’t want their verbal brain dump to sound sophisticated?
This should be described on your app home page, or at the very least in your terms of service. I cannot find it anywhere.
Also, the content user license is unsettling - giving you irrevocable rights to the user's content throughout the world into perpetuity (including the right to transfer).
I would recommend that if your audience is entrepreneurs / experts / thought leaders / content creators, that you balance this language with some thought for the user's desire to protect their IP.