iris VS whisper

Yea, after all these LLMs are predicting one sequence of tokens from another sequence of tokens and the tokens could be anything, it just "happens" that text has the most knowledge and the easiest to input, then there are image, sound, video, but tokens could also be learned from world experience in RL:

Transformers are Sample-Efficient World Models:

https://github.com/eloialonso/iris#transformers-are-sample-e...

Transformers are Sample Efficient World Models https://github.com/eloialonso/iris https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00588v1

This is actually a pretty neat, self-contained implementation that can super easily extended beyond stereotypical natural language models, for example to create world models for video games [1] or to create robot models that can learn to imitate from large, chaotic human demonstration data [2] (disclaimer, I'm an author on the second one.) Basically, GPT (or minGPT) models are EXCELLENT sequence modelers, almost to the point where you can throw any sensible sequence data at it and hope to get interesting results, as long as you don't overfit.

Even though I have only been working on machine learning for around six years, it's crazy to see how the landscape has changed so fast so recently, including diffusion models and transformers. It's not too much to say that we might expect more major breakthroughs by the end of this decade, and end in a place we can't even imagine right now!

[1] https://github.com/eloialonso/iris

Let’s not talk about local models as the hardware requirements are way beyond most of these people’s reach. I have a MacBook Air with an M2 chip and 8GB of RAM and can hardly run Whisper locally, so I use this HuggingFace space.

Last week, I launched notesGPT, a free and open source voice note app that has 35,000 visitors, 7,000 users, and over 1,000 GitHub stars so far in the last week. It allows you to record a voice note, transcribes it uses Whisper, and uses Mixtral via Together to extract action items and display them in an action items view. It’s also fully open source and comes equipped with authentication, storage, vector search, action items, and is fully responsive on mobile for ease of use.

I found a pretty good discussion in the topic here:

https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/1243

There is a plot of language performance on their repo: https://github.com/openai/whisper

I am not aware of a multi-lingual leaderboard for speech recognition models.

I don't know how OP does it, but here's how I'd do it:

* Generate a transcript by runing Whisper against the podcast audio file: https://github.com/openai/whisper

* Upload transcript to ChatGPT and ask it to summarize.

* Automate all the above.

Ahh, that makes sense. I've been building something like that, but only from other languages into English using Whisper

Whisper already generates subtitles[0], supporting VTT and SRT so this is just a thin wrapper around that.

[0]: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/e58f28804528831904c3b...

> although it does require you to wear headphones so the bot doesn't hear itself and get interrupted.

Maybe you can rely on some sort of speaker identification to sort this out?

https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/264