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

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Post by dchuk »

thomasmol wrote: post #25
adipasquale wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have had very good results using Spectropic [1], a hosted Whisper Diarization API service as a platform. I found it cheap and way easier and faster than setting up and using whisper-diarization on my M1. Audiogest [2] is a web service built upon Spectropic, I have not yet used it. disclaimer : I am not affiliated in any way, just a happy customer! I had some nice mail exchanges after bug reports with the (I believe…

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

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

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Post by hubraumhugo »

cube2222 wrote: post #5

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.

Fascinating how traditionally very complex and hard ML problems are slowly becomming commodities with AI:

- transcription

- machine translation

- OCR

- image recognition

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

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Post by drtgh »

kimoz wrote: post #21

Anyone knows a free tool for generating subtitles for movies and series videos ?

SubtitleEdit is one of the most complete and has many online tutorials from users.

Make sure they are recent tutorials because they will probably mention how to use the automated generation tools/plugins that wasn't available years ago.

https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit

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

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Post by leiferik »

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.

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

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Post by aidenn0 »

wanderingmind wrote: post #23
cube2222 wrote: post #5

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.

The problem with using OpenAI whisper is that its too slow on CPU only machines. Whisper.CPP is blazing fast compared to Whisper and I wish people build better diarization on top of that.

Another advantage of Whisper.CPP is that it can use cublas to accelerate models too large for your GPU memory; I can run the medium and large models with cublas on my 1050, but only the small if I use the pure GPU mode.

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

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Post by btown »

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 perfect and occasionally their real-time service has significant transcription delays, not to mention it requires internet connectivity.

Most of the Whisper-based apps out there, though, as well as (when I last checked) the whisper.cpp demo code, require an entire recording to be ingested at once. There are others that rely on e.g. Apple's dictation frameworks, which is a bit dated in capability at the moment.

Anything folks are using out there?

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

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Post by uohzxela »

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 definitely room for improvements in terms of UX and speed. Caveat is that it only works on MacBooks with Apple silicon. Happy to chat over email (see my HN profile).

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

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Post by matejmecka »

Just pitching in a transcription tool that lets you transcribe video and audio files using Whisper and WASM in your browser, and get a .txt, .srt, .vtt file. Maybe in the future support for Whisper Turbo?

https://video2srt.ccextractor.org/

Disclaimer: Working on this project.

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