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Re: Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

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Post by rezivor »

geerlingguy wrote: post #25

I've been using MacWhisper for this, with a huge variety of transcription options and things like speaker detection. It works great for all the 1 hour and shorter videos I've fed it, but does this have more to offer? I haven't tried a 4+ hour video with MacWhisper but I presume that would work the same.

Please be my guest to test my claims. No tall tales here!

Re: Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

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Post by mpeg »

rezivor wrote: post #31
ramon156 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yours isn't OSS, meaning I have no idea what I'm running

OSS would be incredibly slow, also seems like overkill for this use case

I was going to buy the app, but these responses are putting me off massively. How would making it OSS slow it down?

Re: Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

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Post by rezivor »

brokensegue wrote: post #6

Word level timestamps?

Ah, I think you're asking if a user can, when wanting timestamps, if they can further edit the output to be by word? Currently set around each sentence (2-5s) --- But that is absolutely doable and that’s a great idea - On the next update (~3-4wks) I’ll definitely include the ability to control that.

Re: Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

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Post by nvdnadj92 »

rezivor wrote: post #24
nvdnadj92 wrote: post #12

I vibecoded a similar app. Here’s the open source link, if folks want to build their own: https://github.com/naveedn/audio-transcriber

Slower

Yes, but by a negligible margin. My program is designed for multi-track audio, which means I run this in parallel on multiple 3 hour recordings, and get results in 12 minutes.

You haven’t shared any architectural details. What model? What size? How can anyone be sure that what you’re building is truly offline?

Re: Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

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Post by SeanAnderson »

dang wrote: post #95

[stub for offtopicness]

https://i.imgur.com/EBaMNDS.png This is how your landing page looks on my desktop.

The first thought I had when it loaded was, "Did we forget how to make webpages?"

Sorry. I'm sure the software is great, but yeah.

Re: Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

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Post by rezivor »

fl_rn_st wrote: post #40
rezivor wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whisper will fail > 99%* (edit, most of the time) of the time at lengths over 90 minutes and fairly high over one hour.

This is just plain wrong. I have my own Whisper App in the AppStore (on iOS, with very limited memory capacity) and there are no problems at all with longer Audio / Video files.

I've never had whisper complete a single attempt a anything over 75 min

Re: Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

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Post by Telemakhos »

rezivor wrote: post #23
Telemakhos wrote: post #11

What languages does this support? Does it support switching between multiple languages in one video? For example, could it support a video that included spoken Latin, ancient Greek, German, and Italian?

eng der fr de es it pt ru zh ko ar and ja

So, can it handle multiple languages in one video, or do you need to segment the different languages using LID first? This has been a thorny issue for people working in multilingual audio (there are at least two or three of us).
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