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Would love to locally host this, do you have a source?
No docs or anything yet but: https://github.com/mayeaux/generate-subtitles
thank you!
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#32I recently tried Whisper to transcribe our local Seattle Fire Department radio scanner -- unfortunately it was not reliable enough for my use case, e.g. "adult male hit by car" gets transcribed as "don't mail it by car". I imagine future models will allow the user to input some context to disambiguate. Like if I could give it the audio along with the context "Seattle Fire Department and EMS radio traffic", it would b…
The issue here is for most radio systems you end up with about 3 kHz of effective audio bandwidth (sampling). Most ASR/STT models are trained on at least 16 kHz audio.
Did you try a telephony oriented model like aspire or similar? They’re trained on sort-of 8 kHz audio and might work better.
I tried something similar for my SDR feeds and gave up because it’s just too challenging and niche - the sampling, the jargon, the 10 codes, the background noise, static on analog systems/drop outs on digital systems, rate of speech, etc all contribute to very challenges issues for an ML model.
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#33I've been running whisper in the terminal with Python and I've found whisper surprisingly accurate with the transcription even from Chinese. Just given your site a try, nicely done. One feedback - would be great to have a progress indicator on the processing page, I have no idea what stage it's at or how much longer I need to wait.
Yeah Whisper is top of the line, they posted their performance compared to the industry standard and it's right in there at the top.
It should show the data via processing.. it's setup to just take whatever stdout/stderr comes back from Whisper and send it directly to the frontend via websockets, I'm surprised you got stuck there :thinking:
Re: Show HN: I made a free transcription service powered by Whisper AI
#34Should this have the “Show HN” tag? Also, labels’ [for] attributes are all "file" instead of "language" and "model", so all labels trigger the file selection dialog on click :-) UPD: https://github.com/mayeaux/generate-subtitles/pull/1
Merged, thanks. Do I just add 'Show HN:' to the beginning of the title?
I think so, yeah! https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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Thanks! Whisper is a lot of fun but it didn't take long before I wanted to build a frontend. And then I built something that I think came out super nice so why not share it with people. I used to pay $100/month for transcriptions and this works a lot better for me so might as well open-source transcription if I can, but I give all the credit to Whisper that module they put out is amazing
Very generous of you. I made a similar free service 3 years ago using much worse tools and it's so cool to see whisper making it all so much better and more efficient. Thanks for releasing for free
No problem! I am just seeing how it runs, I might throw up a referral link to Vast and put up a tutorial on how to host your own service, maybe that can offset the cost a bit? The current server is $700/month, maybe it could just run off donations who knows
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I also plan to support automatic language translation I have that working locally already actually, and I work for one of the big alt-video platforms and rumour has it that I will be shipping this feature for them soon (auto transcription with auto translated subtitles)
Really cool, that would be a killer feature. Definitely post here when this gets released!
Yeah it's all ready to go using LibreTranslate, they have about 25 languages, maybe I'll finish that this weekend and put it up, it's really inexpensive to make the translations compared to making the original transcription so may as well. Coming soon!
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#37What resources do you have for hosting this?
I setup a whisper-asr-api backend this week with gobs of CPU and RAM and an RTX 3090. I’d be interested in making the API endpoint available to you and working on the overall architecture to spread the load, improve scalability, etc.
Let me know!
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Merged, thanks. Do I just add 'Show HN:' to the beginning of the title?
I think so, yeah! https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Done, thanks! I'm at the top, feels good! I got zero traction on Reddit so glad to see Hacker News was there for me lol
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#39Where is your server hosted with?
Re: Show HN: I made a free transcription service powered by Whisper AI
#40What resources do you have for hosting this? I setup a whisper-asr-api backend this week with gobs of CPU and RAM and an RTX 3090. I’d be interested in making the API endpoint available to you and working on the overall architecture to spread the load, improve scalability, etc. Let me know!
I'm just running this off of a 2x RTX A6000 server on Vast.ai at the moment, about $1.30/h and then using nginx on another server to reverse proxy it to Vast
Open an issue on the Github repo and we can collab for sure!: https://github.com/mayeaux/generate-subtitles/issues