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watchlight

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About watchlight

I started a studio to pursue and publish passion projects (wwww.watchlightstudio.com)

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48533186

    A lot of the available models are Whisper or Faster-Whisper derived and shared across multiple apps. The tier names are often funny... "Tiny" "base" "small" "medium" "large" "large…

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    Comment #48533100

    Are we the same person?? Haha, this is super close to the scope of work I've been doing and just released. Different objectives though. It sounds like yours prioritizes legacy hard…

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    Comment #48530256

    I've been trying to get my passion projects studio together... 1. I literally just put together a personal "Hunter" dashboard to help identify posts and topics that are relevant to…

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    Comment #48529999

    Transcription is a portion of my own pipeline, and I was a bit surprised to learn at how many of the short words were cut out as a result of VAD (voice activity detection) being ov…

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    Comment #48529911

    Agreed with JohnBiz, the moment flagging is interesting and unusual, and a nice contrast to passive transcription. I only recently learned about MacWhisper (I'm Windows primarily) …