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

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How does it compare to MacWhisper?

MacWhisper crashes at about an hour of context. This uses, smart, invisible regex in the text generation pipe. Makes this fast. + bonus, there is no context limit

What do you mean context limit?

Neither whisper nor MacWhisper have any context limit

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

#73
Timecode drift is an interesting issue, think I faced this recently while translating a Google Meet transcript into an incident report timeline.

The elapsed-time timestamps didn't correlate well with other data sources. I figured it was a mistake on my end, and just brushed it off.

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

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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

OSS as in open source software. Not Open Sound System. Just in case.

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

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At $3.99 this was an instant buy for me until the App Store told me I couldn't. I think the venn diagram between HN users and those holding off on Tahoe is probably a pretty big overlap. ;-)

If ever there were a reason to upgrade! But thats a fair point- I drank the Liquid Glass Kool-Aid----- I'll aim more compatibility the next upgrade

Do you have a mailing list?

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

#76

Question: can it discern (and label) different speakers? If so, could you kindly share the limit on speakers per video?

No, not yet! That will definitely be included in the next update next month. Thank you for reminding me of peoples unique need for this use case

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

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That page has a very aggressive background color and really low contrast. Extremely annoying.

Thank you ! I think I was actually going for that

You were going for *really low contrast* ? That's an interesting goal to have.

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

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Thank you. I have heard this : P - It will change soon.

I learned this as a young developer writing status pages. I had a colour-blind colleague, so text on green/yellow/red. Typically white text works better on red.

Reds people choose are usually between dark and light, which doesn't contrast particularly well on anything because for good contrast you need a dark color vs a light color.

Green, yellow, red or whatever hue is fine, as long as it's dark or light enough. Colorblind and non-colorblind people can see how dark or light a color is (luminance), but they might not agree on the hue. That's why WCAG contrast checks require luminance contrast and not hue contrast.

It's best to use a contrast checker because it's not always intuitive how dark or light a color is e.g. yellow and lime are almost as light as white.

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

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I can’t read this site. Red background, dark grey/black text, is a terrible terrible choice for colors for readability. There were some words there but all I could make out were the header on my mobile phone.
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