BetterWhisper

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Better Whisper API - https://www.betterwhisperapi.com/
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Comment · 7 months ago
What scraping challenges? From your pricing I can say you are just using other APIs and you are a layer on top of them. Also your docs mix insta and TikTok results
Comment · 1 year ago
Hey, indeed Whisper can do the transcription of Japanese and even the translation (but only to English). For the best results you need to use the largest model which depending on your hardware might be slow or fast.

Another option is to use something like VideoToTextAI which allows you to transcribe it fast and then translate it into 100+ languages which you can then export the subtitle (SRT) file for

Comment · 1 year ago
Do you support speaker recognition?
Comment · 1 year ago
Not a 8 min read as stated in the beginning but nevertheless interesting.
Comment · 1 year ago
In "The proof as we know" section he states that the dot is a NAND operation

Quote: "the · dot here can be thought of as representing the Nand operation"

Comment · 2 years ago
Are you running whisper on that same $7 Server?
Comment · 2 years ago
https://www.videototextai.com/ - an AI transcription, translation, chat with your video/audio platform. We are very close to releasing an update where it is possible to caption any video in any language - perfect for making social media content.
Comment · 2 years ago
We're currently developing https://www.videototextai.com/ – ChatGPT for video and audio. The idea is to get to an all-in-one video and audio editing/insights platform. We’re actively building out new features to fully realise our vision, and we'd love to get any feedback from HackerNews!
Comment · 2 years ago
You are allowed to delete any transcription you make and with that we do not keep any copy of the transcripts :) . The cookie banner is there to comply with the EU laws.
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Conclusion references a tweet by Elon to explain the most obvious solution is the most entertaining... Make of it what you want
Comment · 2 years ago
Does it do speaker recognition/ diarization? Can't see it from the repo readme
Comment · 2 years ago
Well, do you have the hardware to self-host? People nowadays usually are not okay with 1 week of downloading a torrent like it was in 2005. That is probably how long the embedding will take on your cpu for all the video/picture files?

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