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Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
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> Neat, https://github.com/openai/whisper - they have open-sourced it, even the model weights, so they are living up to their name in this instance. Perhaps it will encourage people to add voice command to their apps, which can be sent to…
comment by darepublic · 2022-09-22 · in Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI -
…to get it, and now it's currently installing. Whatever the default version that `pip install git+ https://github.com/openai/whisper.git ` grabbed didn't include it by default.
comment by NaturalPhallacy · 2022-09-22 · in Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI -
…the exact steps to follow to get it running on Ubuntu 22.04 via WSL and yt-dlp: 1. pip install git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git 2. yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v\=bZkNIzeRBk4 3. renamed the…
comment by gzer0 · 2022-09-21 · in Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI -
…link to the github here[1]? It seems to describe the project better for a technical audience. [1]: https://github.com/openai/whisper
comment by londons_explore · 2022-09-21 · in Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI -
…EDIT: Based on list of languages in the tokenizer code here, doesn’t appear IPA is supported: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/5f8d4bcc254d4f3e833d3...
comment by O__________O · 2022-09-21 · in Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI -
…and "nix develop" followed by "virtualenv ./venv; . ./venv/bin/activate; pip install git+ https://github.com/openai/whisper.git " { description = "Python 3.9 development environment"; outputs = { self, nixpkgs }: let system =…
comment by aidenn0 · 2022-09-21 · in Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI -
…their models. If Stable Diffusion is any guide, people will hack some crazy things with this. [1] https://github.com/openai/whisper [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFLt-KL0K7Y [3] https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/LICENSE
comment by nik_s · 2022-09-21 · in Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI -
(Model weights from https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/whisper/__init__... ) "tiny.en": " https://openaipublic.azureedge.net/main/whisper/models/d3dd5... " "tiny": " https://openaipublic.azureedge.net/main/whisper/models/65147...…
comment by StevenWaterman · 2022-09-21 · in Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI -
…them enough and have a CLI tool, so I presume I just haven't found them yet. 2. Includes code: https://github.com/openai/whisper 3. Released under MIT License: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/LICENSE
comment by jfoster · 2022-09-21 · in Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI -
Neat, https://github.com/openai/whisper - they have open-sourced it, even the model weights, so they are living up to their name in this instance. The 4 examples are stunningly good (the examples have speakers with heavy accents, speaking…
comment by pen2l · 2022-09-21 · in Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI