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Re: Show HN: I made a free transcription service powered by Whisper AI

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Post by mayeaux »

marcooliv wrote: post #2

Good luck with your AWS bill Haha. But seriously. How?

I am just paying for a somewhat expensive server and I love how it's really fast but also I have a lot of free GPU time so might as well let others use it too lol. It's an experiment to see if people will use it productively or if someone will abuse it and ruin it for others lol

Re: Show HN: I made a free transcription service powered by Whisper AI

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Post by knicholes »

mayeaux wrote: post #3
marcooliv wrote: post #2

Good luck with your AWS bill Haha. But seriously. How?

I am just paying for a somewhat expensive server and I love how it's really fast but also I have a lot of free GPU time so might as well let others use it too lol. It's an experiment to see if people will use it productively or if someone will abuse it and ruin it for others lol

someone will abuse it and ruin it for others

Re: Show HN: I made a free transcription service powered by Whisper AI

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Post by mayeaux »

knicholes wrote: post #4
mayeaux wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am just paying for a somewhat expensive server and I love how it's really fast but also I have a lot of free GPU time so might as well let others use it too lol. It's an experiment to see if people will use it productively or if someone will abuse it and ruin it for others lol

someone will abuse it and ruin it for others

Maybe I will put in some mechanism to prevent that but for now I just want to see if people could find it useful. I also have the code open source and will write tutorials for people to put up their own instance as well

Re: Show HN: I made a free transcription service powered by Whisper AI

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Post by marcooliv »

mayeaux wrote: post #3
marcooliv wrote: post #2

Good luck with your AWS bill Haha. But seriously. How?

I am just paying for a somewhat expensive server and I love how it's really fast but also I have a lot of free GPU time so might as well let others use it too lol. It's an experiment to see if people will use it productively or if someone will abuse it and ruin it for others lol

I appreciate your initiative!

Re: Show HN: I made a free transcription service powered by Whisper AI

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Post by mayeaux »

marcooliv wrote: post #6
mayeaux wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am just paying for a somewhat expensive server and I love how it's really fast but also I have a lot of free GPU time so might as well let others use it too lol. It's an experiment to see if people will use it productively or if someone will abuse it and ruin it for others lol

I appreciate your initiative!

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

Re: Show HN: I made a free transcription service powered by Whisper AI

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Post by trompetenaccoun »

mayeaux wrote: post #5
knicholes wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

someone will abuse it and ruin it for others

Maybe I will put in some mechanism to prevent that but for now I just want to see if people could find it useful. I also have the code open source and will write tutorials for people to put up their own instance as well

It would be more useful if one could directly paste links to videos online as well. But yeah, in general this is extremely useful. I'm looking forward to video site integration. Would be great if youtube could finally retire their horrible auto caption function for something that actually works. Being able to easily watch media in different languages from around the world will be an absolute game changer.

Re: Show HN: I made a free transcription service powered by Whisper AI

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Post by mayeaux »

trompetenaccoun wrote: post #8
mayeaux wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe I will put in some mechanism to prevent that but for now I just want to see if people could find it useful. I also have the code open source and will write tutorials for people to put up their own instance as well

It would be more useful if one could directly paste links to videos online as well. But yeah, in general this is extremely useful. I'm looking forward to video site integration. Would be great if youtube could finally retire their horrible auto caption function for something that actually works. Being able to easily watch media in different languages from around the world will be an absolute game changer.

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)

Re: Show HN: I made a free transcription service powered by Whisper AI

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Post by tipsytoad »

mayeaux wrote: post #5
knicholes wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

someone will abuse it and ruin it for others

Maybe I will put in some mechanism to prevent that but for now I just want to see if people could find it useful. I also have the code open source and will write tutorials for people to put up their own instance as well

Would love to locally host this, do you have a source?
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