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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

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Post by ericjmorey »

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.

How is that feature accessed? Or what does Google call it so I can search for it.

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

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Post by noah_buddy »

btown wrote: post #65
WaitWaitWha wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

If it were ephemeral? Would that change this? Say recording the meeting locally a 5 minute frame then updating a meeting summary?

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

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Post by Groxx »

ericjmorey wrote: post #71
baby_souffle wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

How is that feature accessed? Or what does Google call it so I can search for it.

There's a captioning button under the volume slider, and I think it's called "live captions" or something in settings. Just tap the button and it'll start.

https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/9350...

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

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Post by space_oddity »

nullbar wrote: post #11

Maybe it isn't perfectly clear, but OTranscribe isn't an automatic speech-to-text tool, but instead, a UI for assisting in manual transcribing. So no AI here, folks.

Yep, it's designed to assist with manual transcription

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

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Post by space_oddity »

Bayko wrote: post #50
accidbuddy wrote: post #49

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...

Many of us have had those ambitious tech ideas...

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

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Post by dmd »

neves wrote: post #66

Does anybody tested it with Brazilian Portuguese? It is a hard problem, since we have too many accents.

I don't understand what the issue is. You don't know how to type the different diacritical marks? Or the textbox isn't accepting them? (Which seems like it would be a browser issue, not an issue with the site.)

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

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Post by smeej »

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've been using Transcribro[0] on Android/GrapheneOS. It's FOSS and only local, and while it's not word-for-word real-time, it doesn't have to wait for the whole audio to be uploaded before it can work. This is on a Pixel 5a, so hardly impressive hardware.

It works well enough that I use it with Telegram to shove messages over to my Linux machine when I don't feel like typing them out, which is such an unsophisticated hack, but is getting the job done. I spent a couple hours trying to find a Linux-native alternative, or even get this running in Waydroid, and couldn't find anything that worked as well, so I decided not to let the "smooth" become the enemy of the "good enough to get the job done."

[0] https://github.com/soupslurpr/Transcribro

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