A hot-mic moment is going to get me fired one of these days with this new voice-to-text app!
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I like my job. I would not like to be fired from my job for typing inappropriate things into Slack for all my coworkers to see. Or, at least, if that's how I'm going to go out — and I'll be honest, I feel like I'm always one accidental copy/paste from that, anyway — I'd like it to be something I wrote myself.Not AI transcribing reality show clips with vulgar language in messages to my bosses.My job, which I do not want to be fired from, sometimes involves testing new technologies, apps, or gadgets and reporting on my experiences with them. That's a pretty fun job — one that I would like to keep and, again, not be fired from for writing "slam pig" in Slack. (It's an insult — possibly regional in origin — used recently on "The Real Housewives of Rhode Island.")Which is how I found myself in a very compromising position, where my desire to test a new AI tool led me to send a giant block of highly inappropriate text to my coworkers and bosses.My experience using the voice-to-text app AI coders are obsessed withI wanted to test out an AI tool called Wispr Flow, which has become popular among people who use AI heavily for coding and other technical work at work, among other things.The preferred method, from what I've read, is to use a special gooseneck microphone to talk directly into, which Wispr Flow transcribes into nicely formatted text. It's essentially like speech-to-text on your phone, but better — it cleans up the speech, adjusts the tone to casual or more formal, and adds punctuation and paragraph breaks.I'm always interested in new ways people are working, especially around something that seems as essential and basic as "typing into a computer." If people are indeed moving away from the keyboard and mummuring into little microphones all day in the office, well, that's fascinating!
