espnet VS whisper

You might check out this list from espnet. They list the different corpuses they use to train their models sorted by language and task (ASR, TTS etc):

https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs2/README.md

- https://github.com/espnet/espnet

This link has instructions for doing this for a Japanese model. It would have to be altered to work with ljspeech and the fine tune dataset.

This work is made possible by the excellent advancements in text to speech modeling. ESPnet is a great project and should be checked out for more advanced and a wider range of use cases. This pipeline was also made possible by the great work from espnet_onnx in building a framework to export models to ONNX.

CMU WavLab has ESPNet https://espnet.github.io/espnet/ which includes a number of high quality TTS models including VITS (which in my subjective experience is just as good as what is demonstrated here). Also the inference on various ESPNet pretrained TTS models is reasonable and sentences take on average 5 seconds per word to generate the waveform on my totally mid PC setup.

The reason I'm saying this is to point out that having and in-depth knowledge on speech processing/generation requires a lot of information about signal processing and human speech in general (eg. acoustics and phonetics). However, if you're not into learning everything there is to know about a subject, just take one state-of-the-art example and study that as best as you can. Pick one environment/toolkit, for example espnet and simply go with that.

https://github.com/espnet/espnet (kind of like a newer Kaldi, but also not beginner friendly)

both provide e2e ASR support but espnet does have more utilities where as speechbarain is clean

This is relatively small amount of speech to train the model from scratch, but you can train using another pre-trained model for initialization. There are numbers of end-to-end ASR toolkits which can be used for this: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo and https://github.com/espnet/espnet

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