LElern_too_spel·Nov 25, 2023
I've gotten good results with whisperx when I needed to generate captions. https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX
There is currently a problem with diarization, but otherwise, it is SOTA.
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WhisperX: Automatic Speech Recognition with Word-level Timestamps (& Diarization)
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WhisperX: Automatic Speech Recognition with Word-level Timestamps (& Diarization)
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I've actually done a fair bit of ML work in Elixir, in practice I found: 1) It's generally harder to interface with existing libraries and models (example: whisperX [0] is a…
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9 sourceshttps://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/issues/569
WhisperX with the new model. It's not fast.
In Insanely Fast WhisperThe whisperX project has most of it covered they are integrating the new v3 model waiting for a ccp GGUF version also there is a workaround for the latest speaker diarization but it has an active user base working on it
https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX
In Show HN: Bulk Creation of Transcripts from YouTube Playlists with WhisperHow much faster in real wall-clock time is this in batched data than https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX ?
In Distil-Whisper: distilled version of Whisper that is 6 times faster, 49% smallerNeat to see a new implementation, although I'll note that for those looking for a drop-in replacement for the whisper library, I believe that both https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper and https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX are easier (PyTorch-based, doesn't require a web browser), and a lot faster (WhisperX is up to 70X realtime).
In Whisper Turbo: transcribe 20x faster than realtime using Rust and WebGPUjust found out about this today, maybe it's helpful:
https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX
In Universal Speech ModelwhisperX has diarization.
https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX
In Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIsWhat utilities related to Whisper do you wish existed? What have you had to build yourself?
On the end user application side, I wish there was something that let me pick a podcast of my choosing, get it fully transcribed, and get an embeddings search plus answer q&a on top of that podcast or set of chosen podcasts. I've seen ones for specific podcasts, but I'd like one where I can choose the podcast. (Probably won't build it)
Also on the end user side, I wish there was an Otter alternative (still paid $30/mo, but unlimited minutes per month) that had longer transcription limits. (Started building this, not much interest from users though)
Things I've seen on the dev tool side:
Gladia (API call version of Whisper)
Whisper.cpp
Whisper webservice (https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice) - via this thread
Live microphone demo (no
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t real time, it still does it in chunks) https://github.com/mallorbc/whisper_mic
Streamlit UI https://github.com/hayabhay/whisper-ui
Whisper playground https://github.com/saharmor/whisper-playground
Real time whisper https://github.com/shirayu/whispering
Whisper as a service https://github.com/schibsted/WAAS
Improved timestamps and speaker identification https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX
MacWhisper https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper
Crossplatform desktop Whisper that supports semi-realtime https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz
not GP (hoping he responds tho) but i've been collecting a couple of diarization options: https://github.com/sw-yx/ai-notes/blob/main/AUDIO.md
basically whisper.cpp has some support but its not great (based on my own testing)
- https://huggingface.co/spaces/vumichien/whisper-speaker-diar...
- https://github.com/Majdoddin/nlp pyannote diarization
- whisperX with diarization https://twitter.com/maxhbain/status/1619698716914622466 https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX
In Show HN: Self-host Whisper As a Service with GUI and queueing