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comment by satvikpendem · 2026-01-09 · in Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs

…on our corporate github, which lets anyone else import it straight into livebook and use it. [0] https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX [1] https://hexdocs.pm/bumblebee/Bumblebee.Audio.Whisper.html

comment by solid_fuel · 2025-12-31 · in Go away Python

…used it for running multi-hour TTRPG sessions with friends and it worked hassle-free after setup. https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

comment by wswope · 2025-12-01 · in How to Attend Meetings

…or answering questions or whatever)? If you need diarization, you can use something like https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

comment by rahimnathwani · 2025-11-18 · in Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a new pelican benchmark

whisperx does this all quite well and can be run with `uvx whisperx` https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

comment by ancaster · 2025-09-22 · in Show HN: Python Audio Transcription: Convert Speech to Text Locally

…detection i.e. a model to detect when someone speaks, to filter the input before running whisper. https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

comment by artemisart · 2025-09-09 · in Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML

…this and the best out there was WhisperX. Not sure about transformer.js support. Link to the repo - https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

comment by williamsss · 2025-08-16 · in Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text

Yep, whisper can do that. You can also try whisperx ( https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX ) for a possibly better experience with aligning of subtitles to spoken words.

comment by poglet · 2025-08-13 · in FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support

I am building VideoToBe.com - I have found that whisperX works the most reliable. https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX It is built on top of OpenAI Whisper, so speech recognition is good, the transcript gives speaker tags as 'SPEAKER_00' and…

comment by meerab · 2025-07-24 · in Ask HN: What Speaker Diarization tools should I look into?

…so we can have a real fundamental comparison. [1] https://huggingface.co/Mozilla/whisperfile [2] https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX [3] https://github.com/thewh1teagle/vibe/ [4] https://superwhisper.com/

comment by TachyonicBytes · 2025-06-09 · in Ask HN: What API or software are people using for transcription?

Yes it's still relevant but I prefer WhisperX for some tasks: https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

comment by dougk · 2025-02-12 · in Ask HN: Is Whisper Still Relevant?

https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX looks promising - I'm hacking away on an always-on transcriber for my notes for later search&recall. It has support for diarization (the speaker detection you're looking for). I'm currently hacking away…

comment by utrack · 2025-02-12 · in Show HN: Mikey – No bot meeting notetaker for Windows

You don't need to wait, you can use: https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX right now for STT with timestamps and diarization.

comment by GaggiX · 2025-01-09 · in VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles

I use whisper and pyannote ( https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX ), but it is a pain to run locally - I run it on a 4080. This seems to be actually trying to identify the speakers. Not sure what they are doing for that.

comment by broland · 2024-12-16 · in Transcriber AI – Free, end-to-end machine based transcription with speaker id

…code+model are available, and multiple projects have built on it. You could try this wrapper: https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX -- or for short utterances on a smart-phone https://github.com/futo-org/whisper-acft

comment by imurray · 2024-10-07 · in Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI command

…better success with whisperx, as whisper-dia does sometimes have weird issues I couldn't resolve: https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

comment by RamblingCTO · 2024-08-09 · in OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews

It uses this, which does support diarization: https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

comment by ec109685 · 2024-04-06 · in Easy video transcription and subtitling with Whisper, FFmpeg, and Python

…files efficiently and accurately. It’s much better than using the standard openai-whisper library." https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

comment by homarp · 2024-03-31 · in SOTA ASR Tooling: Long-Form Transcription

Whisper doesn't, but WhisperX < https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/ > does. I am using it right now and it's perfectly serviceable. For reference, I'm transcribing research-related podcasts, meaning speech doesn't overlap a lot, which…

comment by Teleoflexuous · 2024-03-29 · in OpenVoice: Versatile instant voice cloning

I've gotten good results with whisperx when I needed to generate captions. https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX There is currently a problem with diarization, but otherwise, it is SOTA.

comment by lern_too_spel · 2023-11-25 · in Subtitle is now open-source

https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/issues/569 WhisperX with the new model. It's not fast.

comment by RockRobotRock · 2023-11-14 · in Insanely Fast Whisper

…is a workaround for the latest speaker diarization but it has an active user base working on it https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

comment by jimmySixDOF · 2023-11-13 · in Show HN: Bulk Creation of Transcripts from YouTube Playlists with Whisper

How much faster in real wall-clock time is this in batched data than https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX ?

comment by zaptrem · 2023-11-01 · in Distil-Whisper: distilled version of Whisper that is 6 times faster, 49% smaller

…for the whisper library , I believe that both 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…

comment by lhl · 2023-09-12 · in Whisper Turbo: transcribe 20x faster than realtime using Rust and WebGPU

just found out about this today, maybe it's helpful: https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

comment by jazzyjackson · 2023-03-30 · in Universal Speech Model

whisperX has diarization. https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

comment by _neil · 2023-03-01 · in Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

…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…

comment by tikkun · 2023-02-21 · in Whispers of A.I.’s Modular Future

…diarization - whisperX with diarization https://twitter.com/maxhbain/status/1619698716914622466 https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

comment by swyx · 2023-02-13 · in Show HN: Self-host Whisper As a Service with GUI and queueing