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Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
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…quite interesting and is due to the data that Whisper (the transcription service) was trained on: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/928
comment by sno6 · 2023-08-02 · in Show HN: Learn a language quickly by practising speaking with AI -
…they aren't entirely developed (missing features such as "really real time"/instant transcription https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/608 and speaker separation: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/264 ) and I haven't…
comment by 7373737373 · 2023-08-01 · in Ask HN: Git, JavaScript, Chrome, Redis etc. what next? -
…pretty sure OP meant OpenAI’s whisper [0] which is mainly used with whisper.cpp [1] I think. [0]: https://github.com/openai/whisper [1]: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
comment by Semaphor · 2023-06-23 · in Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video] -
…to keep it all on-device. I run it locally for various things and it works pretty damn well. [0] https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by vsnf · 2023-06-07 · in Notes on Vision Pro -
OpenAI Whisper https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by f0e4c2f7 · 2023-06-01 · in Ask HN: Which project(s) made you go “I can't believe this is open-source”? -
…good and several of the output formats include time codes, works with multiple languages. https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by calciphus · 2023-05-30 · in Tone: Cross platform audio tagger and metadata editor -
Is there any indication that USM will be open sourced though? This is more so competing with Whisper. https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by minhazm · 2023-05-22 · in Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code, models for 1000+ languages -
…conference with a German speaker. The transcription was superb, but the translation no so much. [0] https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by doublebind · 2023-04-30 · in Whisper.cpp v1.4.0 -
…followed the various posts linked on this GitHub issue [1]; not sure if there’s more out there. [1] https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/2
comment by aaronharnly · 2023-04-30 · in Whisper.cpp v1.4.0 -
…commits are features or bug fixes, even if the rest of the message is slow/hard to parse. Versus: https://github.com/openai/whisper/commits/main I sometimes need to parse a couple words before I can figure it out. The emoji on the repo…
comment by 8organicbits · 2023-03-30 · in Show HN: Gut – An easy-to-use CLI for Git -
…The cutting edge is Whisper, and it is leaps and bounds over the state-of-the-art just a year ago: https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by retrac · 2023-03-28 · in Ask HN: Was tech always so scammy? -
…best you can run on your own hardware. Open-sourced code and publicly free and available models. https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by retrac · 2023-03-13 · in How 'Open' Is OpenAI, Really? -
https://github.com/openai/whisper/
comment by vasinov · 2023-03-08 · in Writeout.ai – Transcribe and translate any audio files -
…brand capitalization. [0]: https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis... [1]: https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by CSSer · 2023-03-08 · in Writeout.ai – Transcribe and translate any audio files -
Just download whisper .... If you own a gpu use this one https://github.com/openai/whisper If you don't own a gpu use this one https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp (this one is very very slow)
comment by htrp · 2023-03-08 · in Writeout.ai – Transcribe and translate any audio files -
…a couple of GitHub discussions on the Whisper repository with various fixes/hacks to deal with it: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/679 https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/813 If you get a chance, I encourage you to…
comment by nmfisher · 2023-02-21 · in Whispers of A.I.’s Modular Future -
…be optimized to use less memory. For their large Whisper model, OpenAI says they need 10GB of VRAM: https://github.com/openai/whisper#available-models-and-langu... My DirectCompute port of that uses slightly over 4GB of VRAM, see the last…
comment by Const-me · 2023-02-14 · in ChatGPT Hardware: A look at 8x NVIDIA A100 powering the tool -
…will likely improve accuracy for that specific domain. Whisper source is very readable, check out https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/whisper/decoding...
comment by levpopov · 2023-02-13 · in Show HN: Self-host Whisper As a Service with GUI and queueing -
…experience level and complexity of the model and available tooling. For this model specifically ( https://github.com/openai/whisper ) it would be a significant challenge for a newcomer. Luckily Huggingface has a blog post that will get you…
comment by binarymax · 2023-02-13 · in Show HN: Self-host Whisper As a Service with GUI and queueing -
…somehow though. Some more useful discussion here (whisper.cpp project, but still relevant) [1]. 0. https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/332 1. https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/issues/10
comment by nojs · 2023-02-13 · in Show HN: Self-host Whisper As a Service with GUI and queueing -
I thought for Whisper ( https://github.com/openai/whisper ) you actually do not need GPU's and can use a CPU?
comment by whazor · 2023-02-10 · in Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play -
> being called OpenAI while nothing is open https://github.com/openai/whisper is open
comment by jefftk · 2023-01-23 · in OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership -
…and looking a lot like future value; as opposed to showing an immediate route to profit. [0] https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by ycombinete · 2023-01-23 · in Whisper.cpp example running fully in the browser -
> what they have is open source How is https://github.com/openai/whisper not open source?
comment by jefftk · 2023-01-10 · in Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT -
…some but not all of their released products are released with code under open source licenses. Eg: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/LICENSE (an actual product, to transcribe audio, which it really does extremely well; and it's…
comment by jrochkind1 · 2023-01-10 · in Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT -
Whisper is a Speech to Text model released by OpenAI: https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by navanchauhan · 2023-01-03 · in Ask HN: What are you working on this year? -
OpenAI’s whisper[1] should do the job for you. [1] - https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by sunbum · 2023-01-02 · in Ask HN: Are there any good open source text-to-speech tools? -
…by building the discipline necessary to prevent myself from getting distracted in that manner. [1] https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by fouric · 2022-12-30 · in Ask HN: How do you recall ideas/eureka you get during walks, showers, etc.? -
Convenient link: https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by timoteostewart · 2022-12-30 · in Ask HN: I have 3 years of family dinner audio recordings; what to do with it? -
Isn't this it? https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by ldarby · 2022-12-24 · in I found a secret US Government surveillance program (2019) -
…bulk of the work here, is Open Source (under the MIT licence), and freely available for download at https://github.com/openai/whisper . You can run it wherever you want, though something with a GPU will let you do 5x realtime (or better!)…
comment by fragmede · 2022-12-23 · in Serverless Video Transcription inspired by Cyberpunk 2077 -
…too * Google Cloud / Microsoft Azure / AWS / IBM Watson (Can be run Offline) * [OpenAI's Whisper]( https://github.com/openai/whisper ) * [nVidia's NEMO]( https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo ) * [PaddleSpeech](…
comment by navanchauhan · 2022-12-13 · in Offline Voice Assistant on a Microcontroller with 192KB RAM -
Other people reporting accuracy issues https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/657
comment by nshm · 2022-12-09 · in OpenAI quietly launched Whisper V2 in a GitHub commit -
…respond with only one of the following words: A, B, or C." It wouldn't be foolproof, but it helps. https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/117#discussion...
comment by jjwiseman · 2022-12-07 · in Show HN: Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++ -
…correlation between consistency of written/spoken language is for the breakdown per language here: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/language-breakdo... For instance, I know Turkish is very consistent: it was refactored in 1928…
comment by kamilafsar · 2022-12-07 · in OpenAI quietly launched Whisper V2 in a GitHub commit -
…but using a VAD as a workaround (like I do in my WebUI) may no longer be strictly necessary: * https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/397
comment by aadnk · 2022-12-07 · in OpenAI quietly launched Whisper V2 in a GitHub commit -
Coral and Jetson are not very powerful actually, you can't run even medium model in realtime. https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/417 And there is latency issue too, you won't get response very fast. If you look for <0.5s latency…
comment by nshm · 2022-11-26 · in Amazon Alexa is on pace to lose $10B this year -
…a drop in replacement for the for-profit Nuance versions of Dragon, etc. It's even open source. [0] https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by jijji · 2022-11-22 · in Amazon Alexa is on pace to lose $10B this year -
WER breakdown by languages of Fleurs dataset, using the large model: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/language-breakdo... from https://github.com/openai/whisper#available-models-and-langu...
comment by gdz · 2022-11-19 · in Show HN: I made a free transcription service powered by Whisper AI -
It's not as if people aren't trying to do that: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/264 I tried out this notebook about a month ago, and it was rough . After spending an evening improving it, I got everything "working", but…
comment by coder543 · 2022-11-19 · in Show HN: I made a free transcription service powered by Whisper AI -
I would guess that they're using OpenAI's Whisper, which is open source: https://github.com/openai/whisper It does speech-to-text, then you can use the full force of all the text analysis tools that are out there.
comment by rockemsockem · 2022-11-15 · in I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information -
You can download whisper at https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by Tepix · 2022-11-15 · in I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information -
Someone is experimenting with diarization (speaker identification) + Whisper here https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/264
comment by dsalzman · 2022-11-15 · in I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information -
…answers, but should blow siri etc out of the water in terms of understanding the context. [0] https://github.com/openai/whisper [1] https://github.com/mozilla/TTS
comment by actualwitch · 2022-11-15 · in I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information -
…Its accuracy is less good for Hebrew, but instructional materials are likely optimal input. https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by anigbrowl · 2022-10-21 · in Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete my websites -
…define "work", Whisper also works with Hebrew. Not sure if the word error rate is acceptable though https://github.com/openai/whisper/#available-models-and-lang...
comment by johndough · 2022-10-21 · in Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete my websites -
…uses it. They also release Whisper model and code[2] [1] https://github.com/openai/CLIP [2] https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by nl · 2022-10-05 · in 3D Novel View Synthesis with Diffusion Models -
…more high-quality open source work, both code and models, which will move the field forward. [0]: https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by forgingahead · 2022-09-29 · in DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist -
However, https://github.com/openai/whisper#available-models-and-langu... says requires ~1 GB VRAM.
comment by yencabulator · 2022-09-22 · in Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI -
cause ffmpeg inside https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/requirements.txt should process most formats
comment by adeptima · 2022-09-22 · in Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI