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whisper.cpp
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Show HN: I created automatic subtitling app to boost short videos
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....
- LLaMA Now Goes Faster on CPUs
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LLMs on your local Computer (Part 1)
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.
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Voxos.ai – An Open-Source Desktop Voice Assistant
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.
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Jarvis: A Voice Virtual Assistant in Python (OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Deepgram)
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...
- Wchess
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I've open sourced my Flutter plugin to run on-device LLMs on any platform. TestFlight builds available now.
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
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Scrybble is the ReMarkable highlights to Obsidian exporter I have been looking for
🗣️🎙️ whisper.cpp (offline speech-to-text transcription, models trained by OpenAI, CLI based, browser based)
- Whisper.wasm
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Whisper C++ not working for me. Anyone else?
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
faster-whisper
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Using Groq to Build a Real-Time Language Translation App
For our real-time STT needs, we'll employ a fantastic library called faster-whisper.
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Apple Explores Home Robotics as Potential 'Next Big Thing'
Thermostats: https://www.sinopetech.com/en/products/thermostat/
I haven't tried running a local text-to-speech engine backed by an LLM to control Home Assistant. Maybe someone is working on this already?
TTS: https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper
LLM: https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases
LLM: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-D...
It would take some tweaking to get the voice commands working correctly.
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Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs. M1 Pro with MLX
Could someone elaborate how is this accomplished and is there any quality disparity compared to original whisper?
Repos like https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper makes immediate sense about why it's faster than the original, but this one, not so much, especially considering it's even much faster.
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Now I Can Just Print That Video
Cool! I had the same project idea recently. You may be interested in this for the step of speech2text: https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper
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Distil-Whisper: distilled version of Whisper that is 6 times faster, 49% smaller
That's the implication. If the distil models are same format as original openai models then the Distil models can be converted for faster-whisper use as per the conversion instructions on https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper/
So then we'll see whether we get the 6x model speedup on top of the stated 4x faster-whisper code speedup.
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AMD May Get Across the CUDA Moat
> While I agree that it's much more effort to get things working on AMD cards than it is with Nvidia, I was a bit surprised to see this comment mention Whisper being an example of "5-10x as performant".
It easily is. See the benchmarks[0] from faster-whisper which uses Ctranslate2. That's 5x faster than OpenAI reference code on a Tesla V100. Needless to say something like a 4080 easily multiplies that.
> https://www.tomshardware.com/news/whisper-audio-transcriptio... is a good example of Nvidia having no excuses being double the price when it comes to Whisper inference, with 7900XTX being directly comparable with 4080, albeit with higher power draw. To be fair it's not using ROCm but Direct3D 11, but for performance/price arguments sake that detail is not relevant.
With all due respect to the author of the article this is "my first entry into ML" territory. They talk about a 5-10 second delay, my project can do sub 1 second times[1] even with ancient GPUs thanks to Ctranslate2. I don't have an RTX 4080 but if you look at the performance stats for the closest thing (RTX 4090) the performance numbers are positively bonkers - completely untouchable for anything ROCm based. Same goes for the other projects I linked, lmdeploy does over 100 tokens/s in a single session with LLama2 13b on my RTX 4090 and almost 600 tokens/s across eight simultaneous sessions.
> EDIT: Also using CTranslate2 as an example is not great as it's actually a good showcase why ROCm is so far behind CUDA: It's all about adapting the tech and getting the popular libraries to support it. Things usually get implemented in CUDA first and then would need additional effort to add ROCm support that projects with low amount of (possibly hobbyist) maintainers might not have available. There's even an issue in CTranslate2 where they clearly state no-one is working to get ROCm supported in the library. ( https://github.com/OpenNMT/CTranslate2/issues/1072#issuecomm... )
I don't understand what you're saying here. It (along with the other projects I linked) are fantastic examples of just how far behind the ROCm ecosystem is. ROCm isn't even on the radar for most of them as your linked issue highlights.
Things always get implemented in CUDA first (ten years in this space and I've never seen ROCm first) and ROCm users either wait months (minimum) for sub-par performance or never get it at all.
[0] - https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper#benchmark
[1] - https://heywillow.io/components/willow-inference-server/#ben...
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Open Source Libraries
guillaumekln/faster-whisper
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Whisper Turbo: transcribe 20x faster than realtime using Rust and WebGPU
Neat to see a new implementation, although I'll note that for those looking for a drop-in replacement for the whisper library, I believe that both faster-whisper https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper and https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX are easier (PyTorch-based, doesn't require a web browser), and a lot faster (WhisperX is up to 70X realtime).
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Whisper.api: An open source, self-hosted speech-to-text with fast transcription
One caveat here is that whisper.cpp does not offer any CUDA support at all, acceleration is only available for Apple Silicon.
If you have Nvidia hardware the ctranslate2 based faster-whisper is very very fast: https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper
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LeMUR: LLMs for Audio and Speech
Comparison by competitor but it’s believable IMO. Basically about the same performance as whisper:
- https://deepgram.com/learn/nova-speech-to-text-whisper-api
Not surprising though as at this level all these options are starting to be leveled by inconsistencies in manual groundtruth. Conformed alone also isn’t the most powerful architecture out there for speech. This is also slower than, say running a large k2 zipformer via onnx on cpu.
Also if you have a small shop at this point you can do all of this yourself with whisper large v2 on a single 16gb gpu via some tweaking of https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper and an odd LLM.
Interesting stuff but I think margins in this space are getting ready to simply vanish.
What are some alternatives?
Whisper - High-performance GPGPU inference of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model
whisperX - WhisperX: Automatic Speech Recognition with Word-level Timestamps (& Diarization)
bark - 🔊 Text-Prompted Generative Audio Model
stable-ts - Transcription, forced alignment, and audio indexing with OpenAI's Whisper
whisper - Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
whisper-diarization - Automatic Speech Recognition with Speaker Diarization based on OpenAI Whisper
ROCm - AMD ROCm™ Software - GitHub Home [Moved to: https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm]
llama.cpp - LLM inference in C/C++
whisper-realtime - Whisper runs in realtime on a laptop GPU (8GB)
NeMo - A scalable generative AI framework built for researchers and developers working on Large Language Models, Multimodal, and Speech AI (Automatic Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech)
Retrieval-based-Voice-Conversion-WebUI - Easily train a good VC model with voice data <= 10 mins!