JAjayavanth·Sep 22, 2022
thuttinger posted in this thread: https://github.com/tobiashuttinger/openai-whisper-realtime
In Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAItobiashuttinger
openai-whisper-realtime
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tobiashuttinger / openai-whisper-realtime
openai-whisper-realtime
A quick experiment to achieve almost realtime transcription using Whisper.
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2 sourcesI tried running it in realtime with live audio input (kind of).
If you want to give it a shot, you can find the python script in this repo: https://github.com/tobiashuttinger/openai-whisper-realtime
A bit more context on how it works:
The systems default audio input is captured with python, split into small chunks and is then fed to OpenAI's original transcription function. It tries (currently rather poorly) to detect word breaks and doesn't split the audio buffer in those cases. With how the model is designed, it doesn't make the most sense to do this, but i found it would be worth trying. It works acceptably well.
In Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI