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Curious if there was a benefit to using whisper over something like vosk which can transcribe on mobile device pretty decently.
Whisper has other interesting functionality but for straight transcription it seems a bit heavy. Still learning about it and putting it through its paces.
I didn't manage to transcribe anything (it just doesn't remember that I submitted anything), but whatever, I didn't need to anyway. I just wanted to ask: how good is Whisper with non-english? At least "major" ones, like, German, French, Russian, Spanish?
from https://github.com/openai/whisper#available-models-and-langu...
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There have been a lot of hacks to speed up whisper inference
Sweet! Do you have any links to resources on how to speed it up? I couldn't find any while searching Google or the Whisper discussion forums.
https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
This is a C/C++ version of Whisper which uses the CPU. It's astoundingly fast. Maybe it won't work in your use case, but you should try!
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What is the maximum length of audio allowed? What are your costs in running this? Are the hardware requirements substantial?
Dictation is also great when writing in a foreign language: I speak German ok-ish, writing is harder. Dictation helps writing more correct German.
This is a cool project. I’ve been very happy with whisper as an alternative to otter; it works better and solves real problems for me. I feel compelled to point out whisper.cpp. It may be cheaper for the author but is relevant for others. I was running whisper on a gtx 1070 to get decent performance; it was terribly slow on M1 Mac. Whisper.cpp has comparable performance to the 1070 while running on M1 CPU. It is easy…
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Maybe I will put in some mechanism to prevent that but for now I just want to see if people could find it useful. I also have the code open source and will write tutorials for people to put up their own instance as well
It would be more useful if one could directly paste links to videos online as well. But yeah, in general this is extremely useful. I'm looking forward to video site integration. Would be great if youtube could finally retire their horrible auto caption function for something that actually works. Being able to easily watch media in different languages from around the world will be an absolute game changer.
