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Does this support using the Parakeet model locally? I'm a MacWhisper user and I find that Parakeet is way better and faster than Whisper for on-device transcription. I've been using push-to-transcribe with MacWhisper through Parakeet for a while now and it's quite magical.
Does this support using the Parakeet model locally? I'm a MacWhisper user and I find that Parakeet is way better and faster than Whisper for on-device transcription. I've been using push-to-transcribe with MacWhisper through Parakeet for a while now and it's quite magical.
are there any non-Whisper-based voice models/tech/APIs?
Local, using WhisperX. Precompiled binaries available.
I'm hoping to find and try a local-first version of an nvidia/canary like (like https://huggingface.co/nvidia/canary-qwen-2.5b) since it's almost twice as fast as Whisper with even lower word-error-rate
Earlier today I discovered Vibe: https://github.com/thewh1teagle/vibe Local, using WhisperX. Precompiled binaries available. I'm hoping to find and try a local-first version of an nvidia/canary like (like https://huggingface.co/nvidia/canary-qwen-2.5b ) since it's almost twice as fast as Whisper with even lower word-error-rate
Allegedly Groq will be offering diarization with their cloud offering and super fast API which will be huge for those willing to go off-local.
Now we just need text to speech so we can truly interact with our computers hands free.
$ apt install espeak-ng
$ espeak-ng 'Hello, World!'
If there's a more modern package that sounds more human that's a similar no-brainer to install, I'd be interested, but just to note that this part of the problem has been solved for many years now, even if the better-sounding models are usually not as openly licensed, orders of magnitude more resource-intensive, limited to a few languages, and often less reliable/predictable in their pronunciation of new or compound words (usually not all of these issues at once)
Wait, I'm confused. The text here says all data remains on device and emphasises how much you can trust that, that you're obsessed with local-first software, etc. Clicking on the demo video, step one is... configuring access tokens for external services? Are the services shown at 0:21 (Groq, OpenAI, Antrophic, Google, ElevenLabs) doing the actual transcription, listening to everything I say, and is only the resulting…
Does this support using the Parakeet model locally? I'm a MacWhisper user and I find that Parakeet is way better and faster than Whisper for on-device transcription. I've been using push-to-transcribe with MacWhisper through Parakeet for a while now and it's quite magical.