Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor 359 by the_king | 125 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! We’re Jack and Finn from Aqua Voice ( https://withaqua.com/ ). Aqua is a voice-native document editor that combines reliable dictation and natural language commands, letting you say things like: “make this a list” or “it’s Erin with an E” or “add an inline citation here for page 86 of this book”. Here is a demo: https://youtu.be/qwSAKg1YafM . Finn, who is big-time dyslexic, has been using dictation software since the sixth grade when his dad set him up on Dragon Dictation. He used it through school to write papers, and has been keeping his own transcription benchmarks since college. All that time, writing with your voice has remained a cumbersome and brittle experience that is riddled with painpoints. Dictation software is still terrible. All the solutions basically compete on accuracy (i.e. speech recognition), but none of them deal with the fundamentally brittle nature ...