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Developer builds WhatsApp voice note transcriber using LLM-TDD

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A developer has created "WhatYouSay," a personal server that transcribes voice messages from WhatsApp into text. This tool aims to solve the inconvenience of listening to voice notes by providing readable transcripts directly within the chat. The development process utilized a novel approach called LLM-TDD, where an LLM generates code based on predefined evaluation checks written by the developer. AI

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RANK_REASON The item describes a specific application built by an individual developer, rather than a release from a major AI lab or a significant industry-wide event.

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Developer builds WhatsApp voice note transcriber using LLM-TDD

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Waldo ·

    Write the eval before the fix: building a WhatsApp transcriber with LLM-TDD

    <p>Voice messages are my pet peeve. They arrive while I am in a meeting or putting my daughter to bed, and I want the chance to read them rather than stop everything and listen. They pile up instead: a friend's two-minute update waits until the evening, and by then half of it is …

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