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Re: Transcribe.cpp

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post #7

would love to see a demo handy is fantastic although its still behind the frontier models

Pretty sure I saw Handy using it; if you have the latest version, you’re probably already demoing it.

I installed it but I don't think I see the streaming transcriptions. I do think the transcription is a bit faster. I am using the latest version.

Re: Transcribe.cpp

#22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty sure I saw Handy using it; if you have the latest version, you’re probably already demoing it.

I installed it but I don't think I see the streaming transcriptions. I do think the transcription is a bit faster. I am using the latest version.

You have to change the model to one that supports streaming. The latest parakeet does. I've been using it the last week or so. It's good stuff :)

Re: Transcribe.cpp

#26

This is an incredible contribution to the community and it's just... one guy? I kept reading expecting a Series A funding announcement at the bottom. It's a nice reminder: You can use AI to slop cannon at maximum speed, or you can use it to scale your ambitions and build something more rigorous and lasting than ever before. I'd build Transcribe.cpp into the apps I maintain, but I feel like this functionality should (…

Hey, yep author and maintainer here! Certainly sponsors help and the wonderful community who donates to Handy as well! Mozilla AI was very helpful in getting this work off the ground. It was a pipe dream for me to build for Handy and they helped to sponsor me so I could make time to take this project seriously and get a v0.1.0 release out the door

I agree this should be everywhere and I hope to distribute libtranscribe some day properly so it is more a system library! It will take time to stabilize but I think we can get there

Re: Transcribe.cpp

#27
Congrats on delivering good value to the people. I have used transcribe.cpp a few weeks ago to do near realtime offline stt on a 10 year old phone, writing simple adhoc app for my use case, it's crazy what is happening right now.

Re: Transcribe.cpp

#28

So it's mostly intended to be a better replacement for whisper? Mostly? With better support for more models and maybe acceleration backends?

More or less yes, for whisper.cpp, just trying to make local transcription more accessible to anyone building an app, etc

Re: Transcribe.cpp

#30
post #7

would love to see a demo handy is fantastic although its still behind the frontier models

Pretty sure I saw Handy using it; if you have the latest version, you’re probably already demoing it.

Yep the latest version has support! Virtually all of the SOTA open models are supported by Handy including the streaming ones like

Nemotron Streaming

Parakeet Unified

Voxtral Mini Realtime

If something you want is not supported, open an issue on transcribe.cpp!

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