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BetterWhisper

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About BetterWhisper

Better Whisper API - https://www.betterwhisperapi.com/

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    Comment #47433019

    What scraping challenges? From your pricing I can say you are just using other APIs and you are a layer on top of them. Also your docs mix insta and TikTok results

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    Comment #44890441

    Hey, indeed Whisper can do the transcription of Japanese and even the translation (but only to English). For the best results you need to use the largest model which depending on y…

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    Comment #44576283

    Do you support speaker recognition?

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    Comment #42940725

    Not a 8 min read as stated in the beginning but nevertheless interesting.

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    Comment #42655304

    In "The proof as we know" section he states that the dot is a NAND operation Quote: "the · dot here can be thought of as representing the Nand operation"

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    Comment #41770437

    Are you running whisper on that same $7 Server?

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    Comment #41690244

    https://www.videototextai.com/ - an AI transcription, translation, chat with your video/audio platform. We are very close to releasing an update where it is possible to caption any…

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    Comment #41342545

    We're currently developing https://www.videototextai.com/ – ChatGPT for video and audio. The idea is to get to an all-in-one video and audio editing/insights platform. We’re active…

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    Comment #41203323

    You are allowed to delete any transcription you make and with that we do not keep any copy of the transcripts :) . The cookie banner is there to comply with the EU laws.

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    Comment #41200408

    If you are looking for something automatic that also allows you to interact with your transcripts chatgpt style then I would recommend https://www.videototextai.com/

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    Comment #41197042

    https://github.com/Emerge-Lab/gpudrive - the repo

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    Comment #41147219

    Conclusion references a tweet by Elon to explain the most obvious solution is the most entertaining... Make of it what you want

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    Comment #41146754

    Does it do speaker recognition/ diarization? Can't see it from the repo readme

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    Comment #40541353

    Well, do you have the hardware to self-host? People nowadays usually are not okay with 1 week of downloading a torrent like it was in 2005. That is probably how long the embedding …

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    Comment #40533392

    Reading the notes aloud is a really good solution without having to spend a ton of time on trying to OCR handwriting. I can recommend https://www.videototextai.com/ for transcribin…

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    Comment #40025801

    Developed https://www.videototextai.com/ exactly for this reason as it was quite impossible to search videos otherwise. Also you can copy the transcript into a LLM and ask question…

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    Comment #39858618

    [flagged]

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    Comment #38970567

    All of it, I have tested it and want to automate it currently. Edit: the biggest hurdle previously was no midjourney API. Now that DALLE-3 is released it is good enough and has an …

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    Comment #38922612

    And what is this unique opportunity to lead in AI?

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    Comment #38734850

    Still no API...

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    Comment #38284266

    Literally spent the last hour trying to figure out why my app was failing. Only thing I was seeing from my side is "permission denied". why can't Google be bothered to put outages …

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    Comment #38283991

    Literally spent the last hour trying to figure out why my app was failing when Google can not even be bothered to put outages in Firebase console... Pretty sure this affected Hacke…

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    Comment #38248530

    While it seems YouTube's auto-generated are hit or miss, I wonder if feeding them through an LLM can fix the mistakes and still get the video's idea out of them

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    Comment #38248502

    Wow, why are they so expensive? Like even the regular whisperAPI by OpenAI is less expensive. This is also why I decided to create https://www.betterwhisperapi.com/ . I believe mos…