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

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Post by baby_souffle »

btown wrote: post #57

Are there any open-source or paid apps/shareware/freeware that can: - Transcribe word-by-word in real time as audio is recorded - Work entirely locally - Use relatively recent open-source local models? I've been using otter.ai for real-time meeting transcriptions - letting me multitask and instantly catch up if I'm asked a question by skimming the most recent few seconds worth of the transcript - but it's far from pe…

> Are there any open-source or paid apps/shareware/freeware

Google Pixel phones have this feature and it works _very_ well.

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

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Post by WaitWaitWha »

uohzxela wrote: post #58
btown wrote: post #57

Are there any open-source or paid apps/shareware/freeware that can: - Transcribe word-by-word in real time as audio is recorded - Work entirely locally - Use relatively recent open-source local models? I've been using otter.ai for real-time meeting transcriptions - letting me multitask and instantly catch up if I'm asked a question by skimming the most recent few seconds worth of the transcript - but it's far from pe…

I have built my own local-first solution to transcribe entirely locally in real time word by word, driven by a different need (I'm hard of hearing). It's my daily driver for transcribing meetings, interviews, etc. Because of its local-first capability, I do not have to worry about privacy concerns when transcribing meetings at work as all data stays on my machine. It's about as fast as Otter.ai although there's defin…

I have some staff with combined hearing and visual needs. Have you researched the one-, two- all-party consent requirements? Asking because I hope to identify transcription as "non-recording".

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

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Post by thomasmol »

dchuk wrote: post #51
thomasmol wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the shout-out and kind words! Thomas here, maker of Spectropic and Audiogest. I am indeed focused on building a simple and reliable Whisper + diarization API. Also working on providing fine-tuned versions of Whisper of non-English languages through the API. Feel free to reach out to me if anyone is interested in this!

Great looking API. Are you able to, or do you have plans, for there to be automatic speaker identification based on labeled samples of their voices? It would be great to basically have a library of known speakers that are auto matched when transcribing

Thanks! That is something I might offer in the future and is definitely possible with a library like pyannote. Would be really cool to add for sure.

I am also experimenting with post-processing transcripts with LLMs to infer speaker names from a transcript. It works pretty decent already but it's still a bit expensive. I have this feature available under the 'enhanced' model if you want to check it out: https://docs.spectropic.ai/models/transcribe/enhanced

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

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Post by rsingel »

leiferik wrote: post #54

You're always welcome to try my service TurboScribe https://turboscribe.ai/ if you need a transcript of an audio/video file. It's 100% free up to 3 files per day (30 minutes per file) and the paid plan is unlimited and transcribes files up to 10 hours long each. It also supports speaker recognition, common export formats (TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, CSV), as well as some AI tools for working with your transcript.

This looks great. Did you have an API or plan to release one?

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

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Post by btown »

WaitWaitWha wrote: post #62
uohzxela wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have built my own local-first solution to transcribe entirely locally in real time word by word, driven by a different need (I'm hard of hearing). It's my daily driver for transcribing meetings, interviews, etc. Because of its local-first capability, I do not have to worry about privacy concerns when transcribing meetings at work as all data stays on my machine. It's about as fast as Otter.ai although there's defin…

I have some staff with combined hearing and visual needs. Have you researched the one-, two- all-party consent requirements? Asking because I hope to identify transcription as "non-recording".

California has an exception for hearing aids and other similar devices, but it’s unclear if transcription aids count, or if this has been tested in court. https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-632/ (Not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.)

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

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Post by andrei-akopian »

btown wrote: post #57

Are there any open-source or paid apps/shareware/freeware that can: - Transcribe word-by-word in real time as audio is recorded - Work entirely locally - Use relatively recent open-source local models? I've been using otter.ai for real-time meeting transcriptions - letting me multitask and instantly catch up if I'm asked a question by skimming the most recent few seconds worth of the transcript - but it's far from pe…

futo.org has FOSS voice input android app (voiceinput.futo.org) and live captions (https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions) for Linux. They specifically developed their own model that does fast real time transcriptions.

Not sure if that helps for your specific usecase.

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

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Post by leiferik »

rsingel wrote: post #64
leiferik wrote: post #54

You're always welcome to try my service TurboScribe https://turboscribe.ai/ if you need a transcript of an audio/video file. It's 100% free up to 3 files per day (30 minutes per file) and the paid plan is unlimited and transcribes files up to 10 hours long each. It also supports speaker recognition, common export formats (TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, CSV), as well as some AI tools for working with your transcript.

This looks great. Did you have an API or plan to release one?

Thanks! Nothing to announce on the API front right now, but appreciate you asking :)

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

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Post by neves »

baby_souffle wrote: post #61
btown wrote: post #57

Are there any open-source or paid apps/shareware/freeware that can: - Transcribe word-by-word in real time as audio is recorded - Work entirely locally - Use relatively recent open-source local models? I've been using otter.ai for real-time meeting transcriptions - letting me multitask and instantly catch up if I'm asked a question by skimming the most recent few seconds worth of the transcript - but it's far from pe…

> Are there any open-source or paid apps/shareware/freeware Google Pixel phones have this feature and it works _very_ well.

Have you tried for non English languages?

New Microsoft Surfaces have this feature but just works for English

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

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Post by BetterWhisper »

Terretta wrote: post #41
BetterWhisper wrote: post #19

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.

You are allowed to delete any transcription you make and with that we do not keep any copy of the transcripts :) . The cookie banner is there to comply with the EU laws.
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