whisper.cpp VS WAAS

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

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