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OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews

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Re: OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews

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Post by TrojanHookworm »

Use this a lot. It's nice and simple and has exactly the tools you need (playback speed control, easy pause/play) and nothing more. Greatly prefer it over automatic transcription tools give you 40 pages of 'umm's and 'ahhhh's to filter through and edit.

Re: OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews

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Post by cube2222 »

I needed to do this this week (transcribe an interview with multiple speakers) and used https://github.com/MahmoudAshraf97/whisper-diarization

Worked excellent.

It generates both a file that just contains a line per uninterrupted speaker speech prefixed with the speaker number, as well as a file with timestamps which I believe would be used as subtitles.

Re: OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews

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Post by RamblingCTO »

cube2222 wrote: post #5

I needed to do this this week (transcribe an interview with multiple speakers) and used https://github.com/MahmoudAshraf97/whisper-diarization Worked excellent. It generates both a file that just contains a line per uninterrupted speaker speech prefixed with the speaker number, as well as a file with timestamps which I believe would be used as subtitles.

I had better success with whisperx, as whisper-dia does sometimes have weird issues I couldn't resolve: https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

Re: OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews

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Post by adipasquale »

cube2222 wrote: post #5

I needed to do this this week (transcribe an interview with multiple speakers) and used https://github.com/MahmoudAshraf97/whisper-diarization Worked excellent. It generates both a file that just contains a line per uninterrupted speaker speech prefixed with the speaker number, as well as a file with timestamps which I believe would be used as subtitles.

I have had very good results using Spectropic [1], a hosted Whisper Diarization API service as a platform. I found it cheap and way easier and faster than setting up and using whisper-diarization on my M1. Audiogest [2] is a web service built upon Spectropic, I have not yet used it.

disclaimer : I am not affiliated in any way, just a happy customer! I had some nice mail exchanges after bug reports with the (I believe solo-)developer behind these tools.

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[1] https://spectropic.ai/

[2] https://audiogest.app/

Re: OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews

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Post by H8crilA »

cube2222 wrote: post #5

I needed to do this this week (transcribe an interview with multiple speakers) and used https://github.com/MahmoudAshraf97/whisper-diarization Worked excellent. It generates both a file that just contains a line per uninterrupted speaker speech prefixed with the speaker number, as well as a file with timestamps which I believe would be used as subtitles.

I often subtitle old, obscure, foreign language movies with Whisper. Or random clips found on foreign Telegram/Twitter channels. Paired up with some GPT for translation it works great!

You can do this locally if you have enough (V)RAM, but I prefer the OpenAI API, as usually I don't have enough at hand. And the various Llamas aren't really quality on par with GPT-4. If you only need Whisper, and no translation, then local execution is indeed very viable. High quality Whisper fits in 4GB of (V)RAM.

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