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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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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

iirc whisper-diarization uses whisperx under the hood.

I’ll be honest, I haven’t dived much into this as I just needed something transcribed quickly, but when I was looking at WhisperX I couldn’t find a CLI that would just out of the box give me a text file with a line per speaker statement (not per word).

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

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post #2

fantastic tool; I used it a lot to transcribe interviews during plane travels where there was no internet, and I needed to fill the time. Really useful to have if you do a lot of interviews

From the homepage:

> A free web app to take the pain out of transcribing recorded interviews

How did you use a web app on the plane with no internet?

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

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Any new language support in the future? Fingers crossed for japanese

Am I missing something?. For what I checked it supports every language, as is yourself the one transcribing by hand. This is just an UI to watch the video or audio while you're typing it.

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

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post #2

fantastic tool; I used it a lot to transcribe interviews during plane travels where there was no internet, and I needed to fill the time. Really useful to have if you do a lot of interviews

From the homepage: > A free web app to take the pain out of transcribing recorded interviews How did you use a web app on the plane with no internet?

It’s MIT licensed so presumably self hosted

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

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post #2

fantastic tool; I used it a lot to transcribe interviews during plane travels where there was no internet, and I needed to fill the time. Really useful to have if you do a lot of interviews

From the homepage: > A free web app to take the pain out of transcribing recorded interviews How did you use a web app on the plane with no internet?

Ran the server on his or her laptop...

You don't need the internet to use a web browser

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

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post #2

fantastic tool; I used it a lot to transcribe interviews during plane travels where there was no internet, and I needed to fill the time. Really useful to have if you do a lot of interviews

From the homepage: > A free web app to take the pain out of transcribing recorded interviews How did you use a web app on the plane with no internet?

The web app saves an offline copy for use the first time you open it. https://otranscribe.com/help/#can_i_use_otranscribe_offline
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