Whisper is incredible, and it's bananas that they give it away for free. It is able to decipher English with the thickest of accents, often better than me.
Yeah, it’s like everyone forgot about Whisper because of ChatGPT. A friend had 200 hours of audio of a retiring expert naturalist’s park tours and wanted to publish them so the knowledge wouldn’t be lost. I turned them it all into incredibly accurate text files overnight using just my M1 laptop, for free. That’s crazy.
Have you tried whisper? I havent heard about it. I'm using Dragon NaturallySpeaking which is very inaccurate and feels like it was created 10 years ago. Would anyone be interested in developing an alternative based on whisper that allows hands-free computer use?
What alternative to whisper would you recommend?
I just recently looked at what’s available, and most of what I found was much worse - what did I miss?
This is cool. We have integrated Whisper with our human in the loop tech at Scribie [1] and the results have been great. We offer free credits if you want to try it out.
Does anyone have an idea why they are so open about Whisper? Is it the poster child project for OAI people scratching their open source itch? Is there just no commercial value in speech to text?
Whisper models can do flawless transcripts in real time. They can run locally on a laptop without proprietary software. Not having them in a tech talk is inexcusable today.
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