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Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text

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Re: Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text

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Accrescent hype is comically overdone.

I looked in the GitHub issues and there's a closed issue for F-droid inclusion. The author states that F-droid "Doesn't meet their requirements" but doesn't elaborate. I wonder what F-droid is missing that they need so much?

Re: Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text

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I did some core work on TTS at Google, at several layers, and I've never quite understood what people mean by streaming vs. not. In each and every case I'm familiar with, streaming means "send the whole audio thus far to the inference engine, inference it, and send back the transcription" I have a Flutter library that does the same flow as this (though via ONNX, so I can cover all platforms), and Whisper + Silero is…

"streaming" in this case is like another reply said: transcriptions appear as I talk. Compared to not-streaming in which the service waits for silence, then processes the captured speech, then returns some transcription. Is your Flutter library available? And does it run locally? I'm looking for a good Flutter streaming (in the sense above) speech recognition library. vosk looks good, but it's lacking some configurab…

FONNX, haven't gone out of my way to make it trivial[1], but, it's very good, battle tested on every single platform. (And yes runs locally)

[1] example app shows how to do everything, there's basic doc, but man the amount of nonsense you need to know to pull it all together is just too hard to document without a specific Q. Do feel free to file an issue

Re: Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text

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Looks similar to the new FUTO keyboard: https://voiceinput.futo.org/

I've been using this for a while (the voice input, not their keyboard) and it's so refreshing to be able to just speak and have the output come out as fully formed, well punctuated sentences with proper capitalization.

I agree. No more "speaking punctuation". Just talk as normal and it comes out fully formed

Re: Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text

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I've been using this for a while (the voice input, not their keyboard) and it's so refreshing to be able to just speak and have the output come out as fully formed, well punctuated sentences with proper capitalization.

I agree. No more "speaking punctuation". Just talk as normal and it comes out fully formed

I actually don't mind speaking punctuation, in fact it kind of helps. What I really hate is the middle-spot where we are right now, where it tries to place punctuation and sucks badly at it.

Re: Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did some core work on TTS at Google, at several layers, and I've never quite understood what people mean by streaming vs. not. In each and every case I'm familiar with, streaming means "send the whole audio thus far to the inference engine, inference it, and send back the transcription" I have a Flutter library that does the same flow as this (though via ONNX, so I can cover all platforms), and Whisper + Silero is…

I think in practical terms (at least for me): - streaming == I talk and the text appears as I talk - batched == I talk, and after I'm done talking some processing happens and the text gets populated

Gotcha, then, it's "not even wrong" in the Pauli sense to say Whisper isn't streaming

Re: Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text

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But open source, which is a pretty big difference

FUTO and Transcribro are open source.

FUTO is not open source.

https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/voiceinput/-/blob/master/LICENS...

> FUTO Source First License 1.0

> You may use or modify the software only for non-commercial purposes

Re: Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text

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But open source, which is a pretty big difference

FUTO and Transcribro are open source.

No, FUTO made a new "Source First License"[1] that is not Open Source by the OSI definition.

[1] https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard/blob/master/LIC...

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