transcript.fish VS obsidian-releases

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!

The closest editor that follows our first principle is Obsidian editor:

The solution was already installed on both my computer and my phone: Obsidian.

> why does open source need to "win"

Open source does not need to win.

But your ability to be in control of your computer needs to be preserved. A proprietary fridge cannot control your diet, while a proprietary App Store can control what software you install on YOUR phone (unless you live in EU, hello DMA!). The tail wags the dog, so to speak. Proprietary software has also been shown to break user workflows or remove functions in an update while leaving users with no choice whatsoever.

One alternative to having open source win is to ensure software must come with a robust warranty and other assurances you expect from the things you buy. EU's CRA will make software vulnerabilities in WiFi routers covered by warranty, for example.

You can also ensure robust and interoperable data storage options. For example, https://obsidian.md/ stores all notes in Markdown, not holding the data hostage in case users will not like how future versions will work. GDPR actually has a provision for data portability (Art. 20), but it does not seem to have a requisite effect on the industry yet.

And until the above issues are solved, open source remains the best way to ensure that a software tail cannot wag your computer dog.

[2] https://obsidian.md/

So I've had my fair share of personal websites and blogs. I have built them on stacks ranging from the most basic HTML and CSS, to hosted frameworks like Wordpress and Laravel, to the more modern single page applications built in Vue and React. For a simple content blog I think you can't go wrong with a Static Site Generator though. These days I am almost exclusively writing everything in Obsidian. Which is great because its all in standard markdown format. This allows for a really neat and easy content publishing workflow.

Consider making an Obsidian[^1] plugin, or writing to Obsidian-compatible Markdown files :)

[^1]: https://obsidian.md/

Obsidian is a writing application created to allow for offline / private note taking in markdown format, in an interface that looks a lot like our regular programming IDE. It is very flexible, with a good collection of community plugins that you can use to customize Obsidian to your heart contents.

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