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why does it need to generate money?
This is the reply that was posted when Dropbox was first shown off on HN. It's a joke :)
ah I wasn't aware! thanks for explaining :D
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Yeah that makes sense, chunking on silence would sidestep the latency issue pretty cleanly. I've been running it through a basic fastapi wrapper so it just takes whatever audio blob gets thrown at it, no chunking logic on the server side. Might be worth adding a vad pass before sending to whisper though, would cut down on processing dead air too.
Maintainer of WhisperKit here, confirming we do exactly that for longform. We search for the longest "low energy" silence in the second half of the audio window and set the chunking point to the middle of that silence. It uses a version of the webrtc vad algorithm, and significantly speeds up longform because we can run a large amount of concurrent inference requests through CoreML's async prediction api. Whisper is…
Oh nice, the pyannote coreml port is interesting. Last time I looked at pyannote it was pytorch only so getting it to run efficiently on apple silicon was kind of a pain. Does the coreml version handle diarization or just activity detection?
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#225Does it show your spoken words on the screen live (i.e. streaming) or does it wait until you’ve finished speaking?
I find it very helpful to see my words live - for some reason it helps my simple brain structure what I’m saying, and I’m much more fluent as a result.
I went on a mission a few weeks ago and tried every freely available MacOS STT app I could find (and there are lots of them) - but none I tried had this feature and was otherwise satisfactory. (I vibe-coded a PoC which could do this, so it’s definitely possible.)
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Handy with parakeet is pretty awesome by the way!
Agree. Slept on. Wish they would do an ios version, but the creator already kind of dismissed it.
fine. I will port it myself. Real-time, sub 100ms latency. Here
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#229i also did this dictatorflow lee101/voicetype i open sourced it also. nice. might be good reference :)
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#230Nicely done! Ive been abusing chatgpt's overlay window for this, until now