whisper VS WAAS

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

This app does it locally on newer macs for free.

https://apps.apple.com/no/app/jojo-transcribe/id1659864300?m...

And open source: https://github.com/schibsted/WAAS

Clone the repo, then run the steps in the dockerfile: https://github.com/schibsted/WAAS/blob/main/Dockerfile

What utilities related to Whisper do you wish existed? What have you had to build yourself?

On the end user application side, I wish there was something that let me pick a podcast of my choosing, get it fully transcribed, and get an embeddings search plus answer q&a on top of that podcast or set of chosen podcasts. I've seen ones for specific podcasts, but I'd like one where I can choose the podcast. (Probably won't build it)

Also on the end user side, I wish there was an Otter alternative (still paid $30/mo, but unlimited minutes per month) that had longer transcription limits. (Started building this, not much interest from users though)

Things I've seen on the dev tool side:

Gladia (API call version of Whisper)

Whisper.cpp

Whisper webservice (https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice) - via this thread

Live microphone demo (not real time, it still does it in chunks) https://github.com/mallorbc/whisper_mic

Streamlit UI https://github.com/hayabhay/whisper-ui

Whisper playground https://github.com/saharmor/whisper-playground

Real time whisper https://github.com/shirayu/whispering

Whisper as a service https://github.com/schibsted/WAAS

Improved timestamps and speaker identification https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

MacWhisper https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper

Crossplatform desktop Whisper that supports semi-realtime https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz