transcript.fish VS nitter

I have been working on this podcast transcription project for a couple months and it's been super rewarding.

I listen to a podcast called No Such Thing As A Fish, where some researchers talk about their favorite facts they learned that week. Then they riff on it and are generally smart and funny. I listened to the series so many times that I decided I wanted to listen to the show on shuffle, not at the episode level, but at the fact level.

Since I have been playing around with whisper.cpp in python this seemed like a perfect way to combine some technologies I've been wanting to play with.

I ran whisper over the entire podcast and transcribed all the episodes. I had to do this multiple times because I kept messing up. It eventually took like 7 straight days of my M1 processing to get through ~490 episodes.

4 million words, and an 800Mb SQLite database later, I got the transcriptions done and have put up a nice site for searching through the data.

https://transcript.fish

Now I just need to figure out the rest. Breaking it up into facts. Getting the audio working. Highlighting and linking to words, phrases, etc.

Some cool info about the process so far:

1. The SQLite database is chunked up and stored as static files, and the frontend queries the static files directly using HTTP range requests, so it only downloads a couple hundreds kbs when querying.

2. I've been proper using ChatGPT 3.5 free version to help me write python and SQL. It's been pretty game changing as I feel basically no pain from not knowing what I'm doing.

The code is here: https://github.com/noman-land/transcript.fish

Please help if you know how to get whisper speaker diarization working!! I would really appreciate the help.

Interesting, thanks for the tip! I've never heard of lockdown mode. Unfortunately I don't own an iPhone. Any chance you could post an issue with steps to repro?

https://github.com/noman-land/transcript.fish/issues

Thank you!

Don't use Youtube without going through a proxy like Invidious [1] or Newpipe

Don't use {site} Search without going through a proxy like SearxNG [2]

Don't use TwiXXer without going through a proxy like Nitter - this has gotten more difficult lately but it still works as long as you feed the daemon some registered accounts. Video does not work at the moment but that seems to be fixable.

Don't use Reddit without going through a proxy like libreddit [4]

Start noticing the pattern? Maybe it is time to start producing promotional posters:

The only thing to come between you and ADS could be a proxy / ADS. I'ts just not worth the risk

ADS / New rules for a sane net / Sane net protects you, your partner and your community

A proxy here and a filter there, ADS nowhere

The more you tighten your grip, ${site}, the more viewers will slip through your fingers

[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

[2] https://github.com/searxng/searxng

[3] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

[4] https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit

https://nitter.esmailelbob.xyz/liuzhuang1234/status/17601959...

(bit of trial and error from https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances)

I assume this is why Nitter got slammed and is on the verge of breaking.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1154

The creator of the project left this comment an hour ago:

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1155#issuecomment-19...

(HN removed the deep link to the specific comment from the title)

Most of the time you can just replace twitter.com with nitter.net or nitter.it but when these instances are down or blocked you can use other instances listed here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

But as the other commenter said Libredirect is the way to go: https://libredirect.github.io/

Use a Youtube proxy like Invidious [1], problem solved and you get to subscribe to channels without telling the Beast about your interests. Add Sponsorblock (which supports Invidious) to get rid of any in-stream advertising which remains and you'll be transported back to those hallowed times of yore when men were men, women were women and advertising was something you found in newspapers. Youtube will try to make this harder just like Xitter is trying to make it harder to use proxies like Nitter [2].

[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

[2] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

njal.la restored nitter.net, and replied with their reasons: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1150#issuecomment-18...

tbh I can totally understand why they acted this way.