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Re: Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

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Post by braden-w »

fencepost wrote: post #34
sa-code wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This needs to be higher, the installer on the README has a trojan.

More details please? Which installer? ---7.3.0--- This release popped up just a few minutes ago, so VirusTotal results for the 7.3.0 EXE and MSI installers EXE (still running behavior checks but Arctic Wolf says Unsafe and AVG & Avast say PUP): https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/816b21b7435295d0ac86f6a8... MSI nothing flags immediately, still running behavior checks ( https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e022a018c4ac…

Need to run a diff against 7.2.2 tag against 7.3.0; I suspect the issue might be something related to an edit I made on `tauri.conf.json` or one of my Rust dependencies.

Re: Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

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Post by braden-w »

ideashower wrote: post #23

Is there speaker detection?

Diarization is on the roadmap! Some providers support it, but some don't and the adapter for that could be tricky. Currently, for diarization I use the Elevenlabs Scribe API https://elevenlabs.io/app/speech-to-text, but there are surely other options

Re: Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

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Post by braden-w »

hephaes7us wrote: post #55
dllthomas wrote: post #35

Can it tell voices apart?

Speaker diarization is the term you are looking for, and this is more difficult than simple transcription. I'm rather confident that someone probably has a good solution by now (if you want to pay for an API), but I haven't seen an open-source/open-weights tool for diarization/transcription. I looked a few months ago, but things move fast...

Diarization is on the roadmap; some providers support it but some don't and the adapter for that could be tricky. Whispering is not meant for meeting notes for now; for something like that or diarization I would recommend trying Hyprnote: https://hyprnote.com or interfacing with the Elevenlabs Scribe API https://elevenlabs.io/app/speech-to-text

Re: Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

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Post by dllthomas »

braden-w wrote: post #73
hephaes7us wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaker diarization is the term you are looking for, and this is more difficult than simple transcription. I'm rather confident that someone probably has a good solution by now (if you want to pay for an API), but I haven't seen an open-source/open-weights tool for diarization/transcription. I looked a few months ago, but things move fast...

Diarization is on the roadmap; some providers support it but some don't and the adapter for that could be tricky. Whispering is not meant for meeting notes for now; for something like that or diarization I would recommend trying Hyprnote: https://hyprnote.com or interfacing with the Elevenlabs Scribe API https://elevenlabs.io/app/speech-to-text

I'm not looking for attributed meeting notes, so much as making it harder for a passing child to inject content.

Re: Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

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Post by Bolwin »

braden-w wrote: post #66
wkcheng wrote: post #13

Does this support using the Parakeet model locally? I'm a MacWhisper user and I find that Parakeet is way better and faster than Whisper for on-device transcription. I've been using push-to-transcribe with MacWhisper through Parakeet for a while now and it's quite magical.

Not yet, but I want it too! Parakeet looks incredible (saw that leaderboard result). My current roadmap is: finish stabilizing whisper.cpp integration, then add Parakeet support. If anyone has bandwidth to PR the connector, I’d be thrilled to merge it.

Unfortunately, because it's Nvidia, parakeet doesn't work with Whisper.cpp as far as I'm aware. You need onnx

Re: Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

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Post by Jarwain »

Yes yes yes please so much yes.

I love the idea of epicenter. I love open source local-first software.

Something I've been hacking on for a minute would fit so well, if encryption wasn't a requirement for the profit model.

But uh yes thank you for making my life easier, and I hope to return the favor soon

Re: Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

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Post by hephaes7us »

Tmpod wrote: post #64

I've been interested in dictation for a while, but I don't want to be sending any audio to a remote API, it all has to be local. Having tried just a couple of models (namely the one used by the FUTO Keyboard), I'm kinda feeling like we're not quite there yet. My biggest gripe perhaps is not being able to get decent content out of a thought stream; the models can't properly filter out the pauses, "uuuuhmms", and much…

Have you tried Whisper itself? It's open-weights.

One of the features of the project posted above is "transformations" that you can run on transcripts. They feed the text into an LLM to clean it up. If you're willing to pay for the tokens, I think you could not only remove filler-words, but could probably even get the semantically-aware editing (corrections) you're talking about.

Re: Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

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Post by hn1986 »

excellent tool and easy to get started.

on win11, i installed ffmpeg using winget but it's not detecting it. running ffmpeg -version works but the app doesn't detect it.

one thing, how can we reduce the number of notifications received?

i like the system prompt option too.

Re: Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

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Post by NDxTreme »

hephaes7us wrote: post #58

Thanks for sharing! Transcription suddenly became useful to me when LLMs started being able to generate somewhat useful code from natural language. (I don't think anybody wants to dictate code.) Now my workflow is similar to yours. I have mixed feelings about OS-integration. I'm currently working on a project to use a foot-pedal for push-to-transcribe - it speaks USB-HID so it works anywhere without software, and it…

If you want a rabbit hole to go down, looking into cursorless, talonvoice and that whole sphere.

Actually dictating code, but they do it in a rather smart way.

Re: Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

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Post by sebastiennight »

chrisweekly wrote: post #25

> "I think there should be an open-source, local-first version of every app, and I would like them all to work together. The idea of Epicenter is to store your data in a folder of plaintext and SQLite, and build a suite of interoperable, local-first tools on top of this shared memory. Everything is totally transparent, so you can trust it." Yes! This. I have almost no experience w/ tts, but if/when I explore the spac…

I think we're talking about STT (speech-to-text) here, not TTS.
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