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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

#41

If you are looking for something automatic that also allows you to interact with your transcripts chatgpt style then I would recommend https://www.videototextai.com/

That cookies box though... Dark pattern (accept lots + accept all, fake drag affordance, covering a quarter of the page) for cookies doesn't bode well for privacy protections around the transcripts.

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

#43

Kinda surprised to not have AI integration. You do still need to proof and QA even AI results, if you want a publication quality result, and do things like attribute who is speaking when (at least Whisper can't do that), and correct "unusual" last names and things. So I feel like people using AI still need good tools for the correcting/finishing/proofing too, that would be similar to the tools for non-assisted transc…

This was written a really long time ago by a former WSJ Graphics reporter (Elliot Bentley) who is now at Datawrapper. It is now operated by Muckrock and hasn't seen changes made to it in a while. That's why it doesn't have any of these integrations, the technology just didn't exist.

Aha, good to know! That's actually important context, that this is not a recent release, and doesn't necessarily have a lot of ongoing development.

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

#44
I made a similar tool for making tables of contents for youtube videos: https://youtoc.by/

Not developing it actively after I created tables of contents for the several videos I needed, years ago. If I ever need it again, I will probably work on mobile UI (aka responsive)

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

#45
I was curious how good a transcription I could get from what may be the best multimoldal LLM currently, Gemini-1.5-Pro-Experiment-0801, so I had it transcribe five minutes of an interview between Ezra Klein and Nancy Pelosi from earlier today. The results are here:

https://www.gally.net/temp/20240809geminitranscription/index...

Aside from some minor punctuation and capitalization issues, Gemini’s transcription looks nearly perfect to me. There were only one or two words that I think it misheard. If I had transcribed the audio myself, I would have made more mistakes than that.

One passage struck me in particular:

  And then he comes up with "weird," which becomes viral and the rest, and here he is. 
How did Gemini know to put “weird” in quotation marks, to indicate—correctly—that the speaker was referring to Walz’s use of the word as a word? According to Politico, Walz first used the word in that context in the media on July 23.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/26/trump-vance-weird-0...

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

#48
I started making an open source macOS app to do this with whisper and potentially pyannote.

It is functional but a bit slow. I think using whisper directly instead of swift bindings will help a lot.

Really interested in adding diarisation but having a lot of trouble converting Pyannote to CoreML. Pyannote runs so slowly with torch on CPU. Haven’t gotten around putting my latest work for that on GitHub yet.

Happy to accept contributions —

Some priorities right now:

* Fixing signing for local builds

* Replace swift whisper with whisper cpp

* Allowing users to provide their own models

https://github.com/Stack-Studio-Digital-Collective/Auditif

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

#50

Anyone knows one with transcription and translate in real time? Nowadays, I use libretranslate/libretranslate and pluja/whishper to do this, but not at real time.

Ah this brings back memories. When I was in college with limited money, I used to pirate movies and most of them didn't have subtitles and I used to daydream of writing a VLC plug-in which would real time generate subtitles. But I had better things to do like play video games...
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