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

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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?

No docs or anything yet but: https://github.com/mayeaux/generate-subtitles

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

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I 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 bias towards the type of things you'd likely hear on such a channel.

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

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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

Not even abuse, but just intensive use cases. Like the guy who posted a few says ago about recording and transcribing all day.

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I 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…

I (used to) use simonsaysai.com to generate subtitles and they had the functionality to input specialized vocabulary, so I suppose it's possible in some sense but I don't know how it would work with Whisper, something to ask on their Github if nobody else has yet I suppose.

But, for me, the English model works really well. Using the 'large' model works about perfectly for me, I can't think of anything I thought the large model got too badly wrong, is that the model you tried?

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

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post #15

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someone will abuse it and ruin it for others

Not even abuse, but just intensive use cases. Like the guy who posted a few says ago about recording and transcribing all day.

I setup the server to only transcribe two files at a time, so yeah someone could abuse it for sure with two big uploads and stick everyone else on the queue. But for me, even a 3 hour video translates with large model in about ~30 minutes so it wouldn't be too bad, but hopefully everyone is conscious to not do that, so far nobody has abused it which is cool.

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

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post #14

Do you just hold the page open after upload and wait for it to update?

Yeah, there is a websocket connection and when the transcription is done it will update the frontend with the links to .srt, .vtt and .txt file downloads

Thanks. Does the queue position update through the websocket too?

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

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post #16

I 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…

I (used to) use simonsaysai.com to generate subtitles and they had the functionality to input specialized vocabulary, so I suppose it's possible in some sense but I don't know how it would work with Whisper, something to ask on their Github if nobody else has yet I suppose. But, for me, the English model works really well. Using the 'large' model works about perfectly for me, I can't think of anything I thought the l…

Yes, the problem is that the radio chatter is just very, very low quality, for a lot of words your brain just needs to know the context to fill in the gaps due to radio static and such. Even as a human some parts are unintelligible.
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