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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
According to https://github.com/MiscellaneousStuff/openai-whisper-cpu the medium model needs 1.7 seconds to transcribe 30 seconds of audio when run on a GPU.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This demo lets you choose the podcast, and is open-source: https://modal-labs--whisper-pod-transcriber-fastapi-app.moda...
https://github.com/modal-labs/modal-examples/tree/main/06_gp...
Transcribes 1hr of audio in roughly 1min, using parallelisation across CPUs.
That thread makes a bunch of assumptions that seem a bit dubious to me. We've known since Chinchilla that you don't need 175B parameters to get GPT-3 quality – a 70B model can outperform GPT3 [1]. And his numbers assume the model is loaded into GPU memory in FP16 (175B*2 = 350GB), but people have shown you can quantize down to 8-bit (and in some cases 4 bit) with almost no performance loss. So in 8-bit precision with a 70B model you need ~70GB of VRAM, which you can get with two A6000s on a desktop (each 48GB).
And finally there are lots of other ways to get this down. Aside from quantization, people have also shown that you can do pruning – getting rid of many of the weights – again without much perf loss. You can also offload the weights to CPU RAM or an NVME and stream them in as needed [2]; it's slower but if you arrange things right the performance is not too bad. There are also ways to speed up inference using techniques like early exit [3], where you can skip running the whole model for some tokens that are easy to predict.
Overall it feels like within a year or two a combination of better quantization/pruning, improved understanding of how to train smaller LLMs, and hardware improvements will put inference for ChatGPT-style models within reach of the average user.
[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/a-new-ai-trend-chinchilla-70b...
[2] https://github.com/FMInference/FlexGen
[3] https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/12/accelerating-text-generati...