localGPT VS whisper.cpp

I think local LLMs are great for tinkerers, and with quantization can run on most modern PCs. I am not comfortable sending over my personal data over to OpenAI/Anthropic, so I've been playing around with https://github.com/PromtEngineer/localGPT/, GPT4All, etc. which keep the data all local.

Sliding window chunking, RAG, etc. seem more sophisticated than the other document LLM tools, so I would love to try this out if you ever add the ability to run LLMs locally!

localGPT can parse PDF into embeddings, see <https://github.com/PromtEngineer/localGPT>.

This is going so fast that it feels like a new thing pops up every day. LocalGPT seems to have gotten a lot of traction though: https://github.com/PromtEngineer/localGPT

i am currently trying to use localGPT (https://github.com/PromtEngineer/localGPT) for a project and i encountered a problem.

I tinker a lot with electronics. I have put datasheets for components, documentation for development boards, documentation for software libraries, etc into a database with localGPT.

There are a bunch of other methods to improve quality and performance like tree-of-thought-llm, connecting a LLM to a database or have it review its own output.

Check out local gpt on git hub. I tried but it had slow response for me. Other developers are fine. https://github.com/PromtEngineer/localGPT

whisper.cpp [1] has a karaoke example that uses ffmpeg's drawtext filter to display rudimentary karaoke-like captions. It also supports diarisation. Perhaps it could be a starting point to create a better script that does what you need.

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1: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/blob/master/README....

The ggml library is one of the first library for local LLM interference. It’s a pure C library that converts models to run on several devices, including desktops, laptops, and even mobile device - and therefore, it can also be considered as a tinkering tool, trying new optimizations, that will then be incorporated into other downstream projects. This tool is at the heart of several other projects, powering LLM interference on desktop or even mobile phones. Subprojects for running specific LLMs or LLM families exists, such as whisper.cpp.

I'm not sure if it is _fully_ openai compatible, but whispercpp has a server bundled that says it is "OAI-like": https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/tree/master/example...

I don't have any direct experience with it... I've only played around with whisper locally, using scripts.

unless i'm misunderstanding `whisper.cpp` seems to support streaming & the repository includes a native example[0] and a WASM example[1] with a demo site[2].

[0]: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/tree/master/example...

Usage 1: Good to transcribe audio. An example use case could be to summarize YouTube videos or long courses. Usage 2: You talk with voice to your AI that responds with text (later with audio too). - https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

🗣️🎙️ whisper.cpp (offline speech-to-text transcription, models trained by OpenAI, CLI based, browser based)

Has anyone played around with Whisper C++ for swift? I'm hitting a snag even on the demo. I've downloaded the github repo and everything matches up with this video [ https://youtu.be/b10OHCDHDQ4 ] but when he hits the transcribe button, it actually prints out the captioning. When I do it, it skips that part and just says "Done...". But it, does everything else - plays the audio, says it's transcribing.. just doesn't show me the transcription: and it's not in the debug window either. But the demo isn't throwing any errors, and I haven't messed with the code really so this is their example. https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp