WAAS VS FlexGen

This app does it locally on newer macs for free.

https://apps.apple.com/no/app/jojo-transcribe/id1659864300?m...

And open source: https://github.com/schibsted/WAAS

Clone the repo, then run the steps in the dockerfile: https://github.com/schibsted/WAAS/blob/main/Dockerfile

What 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 (not 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

LLaMA, Pythia, RWKV, Flan-T5 (self-hosted), FlexGen

> With no real knowledge of LLM and only recently started to understand what LLM terms mean, such as 'model, inference, LLM model, intruction set, fine tuning' whatelse do you think is required to make a took like yours?

This was mee a few weeks ago. I got interested in all this when FlexGen (https://github.com/FMInference/FlexGen) was announced, which allowed to run inference using OPT model on consumer hardware. I'm an avid user of Stable Diffusion, and I wanted to see if I can have an SD equivalent of ChatGPT.

Not understanding the details of hyperparameters or terminology, I basically asked ChatGPT to explain to me what these things are:

   Explain to someone who is a software engineer with limited knowledge of ML terms or linear algebra, what is "feed forward" and "self-attention" in the context of ML and large language models. Provide examples when possible.