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

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Post by mayeaux »

TheBrokenRail wrote: post #70
mayeaux wrote: post #65

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Yeah someone submitted a PR for those to be fixed, I'm just wary about restarting the server because I haven't setup a way to be able to reboot without losing the websockets Well those inputs should all error unless they are a valid value. Yes if nothing is input it will automatically detect the language based on the first 30s of input

> I'm just wary about restarting the server because I haven't setup a way to be able to reboot without losing the websockets Wait what. Not being able to safely restart the server sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

This was just a personal project a couple hours ago so it's not setup properly to do safe reboots and a lot of other things, I was just using it locally and now it's in in the wild, will take some time to get everything refined and professional

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

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Post by mayeaux »

ramraj07 wrote: post #56
jw1224 wrote: post #44

Free startup idea: Use Whisper with pyannote-audio[0]’s speaker diarization. Upload a recording, get back a multi-speaker annotated transcription. Make a JSON API and I’ll be your first customer. [0] https://github.com/pyannote/pyannote-audio

And you expect the API to be free? If not why not use one of a million other such services?

Well the code is open source, I don't know what I plan to do with this, depends on how people like it, but for the meantime you can use it to transcribe stuff for free which is a victory unto itself

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

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Post by mayeaux »

krick wrote: post #72

I didn't manage to transcribe anything (it just doesn't remember that I submitted anything), but whatever, I didn't need to anyway. I just wanted to ask: how good is Whisper with non-english? At least "major" ones, like, German, French, Russian, Spanish?

I've got people to test and usually with the 'medium' and 'large' models it works really efficiently. Honestly, I just use the large model for everything, because might as well have the best quality if you're going to do the effort.

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

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Post by rexreed »

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

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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

I'd love to read a tutorial on how to do this for myself.

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

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Post by skim_milk »

jerpint wrote: post #78
skim_milk wrote: post #77

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Have you tried the --initial_prompt CLI arg? For my use, I put a bunch of industry jargon and names that are commonly misspelled in there and that fixes 1/3 to 1/2 of the errors. I was initially going to use Azure Cognitive Services and train it on a small amount of test data, after Whisper released for free I use Whisper + openai GPT-3 trained to fix the transcription errors by 1) taking a sample of transcripts by W…

There have been a lot of hacks to speed up whisper inference

Sweet! Do you have any links to resources on how to speed it up? I couldn't find any while searching Google or the Whisper discussion forums.

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

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Post by pain_perdu »

gamegoblin wrote: post #12

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…

We built a working version of this using Assembly.ai

I am no-longer involved in the project but you're welcome to contact the CTO if you're curious how it worked:

https://skyscraper.ai/

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

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Post by bergenty »

seligman99 wrote: post #74

It broke when I tried to feed it an entire podcast file, but still, I took this as a push to try out Whisper AI for myself, turns out it's easier to use than I thought. Long story short, I used it to transcriptify a podcast: https://scotts-podcasts.s3.amazonaws.com/temp/whisper/Intern... Not sure if there's a use for this that's not me, but I like the idea of having subtitles for a podcast I'm listening to.

It’s stunning how it just looks like a human written copy. The punctuation is close to perfect and I couldn’t find any transcription mistakes.

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

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Post by bergenty »

mayeaux wrote: post #81
TheBrokenRail wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm just wary about restarting the server because I haven't setup a way to be able to reboot without losing the websockets Wait what. Not being able to safely restart the server sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

This was just a personal project a couple hours ago so it's not setup properly to do safe reboots and a lot of other things, I was just using it locally and now it's in in the wild, will take some time to get everything refined and professional

Isn’t this very expensive to host? Are you aware this could cost A LOT?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

gamegoblin wrote: post #12

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…

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