ZIzitterbewegung·Aug 23, 2023
There is a great library that has support not only with OpenAIs whisper but many others that also work offline. https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition
In MacWhisper: Transcribe audio files on your MacUberi
speech_recognition
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Uberi / speech_recognition
speech_recognition
Speech recognition module for Python, supporting several engines and APIs, online and offline.
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Speech recognition module for Python, supporting several engines and APIs, online and offline.
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5 sourcesOpen source speech recognition on Github:
1. speech-to-text-wavenet (https://github.com/buriburisuri/speech-to-text-wavenet)
2. kaldi(https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi)
3. Speech recognition module for Python (https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition)
4. DeepSpeech(https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech)
5. Natural Language Processing Tasks and References(https://github.com/Kyubyong/nlp_tasks)
FYI.
In Speech Recognition Is Not SolvedSpeech recognition module for Python
2 points · Open discussionIn my experiences, the issues with building CMU Sphinx are mainly unspecified dependencies, undocumented version requirements, and forgetting to sacrifice the goat when the MSVC redistributable installer pops up.
We've written detailed, up-to-date instructions [1] for installing CMU Sphinx, and now also provide prebuilt binaries [2]!
If you're interested in not sending your audio to Google, CMU Sphinx and other libraries (like Kaldi and Julius), are definitely worth a second look.
[1] https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition/blob/master/refe...
[2] https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition/tree/master/thir...
In Google opens access to its speech recognition APII first learned about CMUSphinx from the [Jasper Project](https://jasperproject.github.io/). While Jasper provided an image for the Pi, I decided to go ahead and make a scripted install of CMUSphinx. I spent something like 2 frustrating days attempting to get it installed by hand in a repeatable fashion before giving up.
This was 2 years ago, so maybe it's simple now, but I didn't find it "amazingly easy" back then.
I do have a number of projects where I could definitely use a local speech recognition library. I have used [Python SpeechRecognition](https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition/blob/master/exam...) to essentially record and transcribe from a scanner. I wanted to take it further, but google at the time limited the number of requests per day. Today's announcement seems to indicate they will be expanding their free usage, but a
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local setup would be much better. I'd like to deploy this in a place that might not have reliable Internet.