freesubtitles.ai
AI
speech transcription
SHOW HN2022
224points
129comments
#237of 2,570 in 2022
Top 10%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
17 positive, 26 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 10 critical, out of 57 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.
Execution: 3 for, 6 againstPerformance: 3 for, 3 againstIdea: 5 for, 0 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Whisper transcription accuracy is strong, especially with the large model
From 3 comments
I (used to) use simonsaysai.com to generate subtitles and they had the functionality to input specialized vocabulary, so I suppose it's possible in some sense but I don't know…
mayeaux on HNYeah I was paying $100/month for transcription services and turns out Whisper with the large model was much more accurate, and I didn't like the UI, I much prefer to just use…
mayeaux on HNI've been running whisper in the terminal with Python and I've found whisper surprisingly accurate with the transcription even from Chinese. Just given your site a try, nicely…
si_164 on HN
Cheaper than paid transcription services
From 2 comments
Yeah I was paying $100/month for transcription services and turns out Whisper with the large model was much more accurate, and I didn't like the UI, I much prefer to just use…
mayeaux on HNRight now the limit is 100MB because of Cloudflare, no length limit, costs $1.30/h to run this, that's enough for a 2x RTX A6000 on Vast.ai can you check out the specs there
mayeaux on HN
Objections
Queue and upload site hung or failed for users
From 3 comments
This site hung basically every time I tried to use it. Only one out of nine attempts I made resulted in the page even decrementing the queue count. Curious if you could just…
fiat_fandango on HNShould this have the “Show HN” tag? Also, labels’ [for] attributes are all "file" instead of "language" and "model", so all labels trigger the file selection dialog on click :-)…
notpushkin on HNYeah I apologize, the queue is a little messed up. It's not showing your progress properly and it's not stopping people's processing if they left (their websocket dies). I'm…
mayeaux on HN
No progress indicator on processing page
From 1 comment
I've been running whisper in the terminal with Python and I've found whisper surprisingly accurate with the transcription even from Chinese. Just given your site a try, nicely…
si_164 on HN
Upload size limited to 100MB
From 1 comment
Right now the limit is 100MB because of Cloudflare, no length limit, costs $1.30/h to run this, that's enough for a 2x RTX A6000 on Vast.ai can you check out the specs there
mayeaux on HN
Requests
Progress indicator during processing
From 2 comments
I've been running whisper in the terminal with Python and I've found whisper surprisingly accurate with the transcription even from Chinese. Just given your site a try, nicely…
si_164 on HNThanks! I wrote it for myself over a weekend and have really enjoyed it ever since I'm glad others were able to get something out of it! It seems to run pretty well but I have…
mayeaux on HN
Dropdowns instead of free text for language and model inputs
From 1 comment
Shouldn't the language and model inputs be dropdowns instead of text input? I'm going to hope/assume you're doing some sort of sanitisation on those inputs. Additionally,…
Namidairo on HN
Support for speaker diarization
From 1 comment
Free startup idea: Use Whisper with pyannote-audio[0]’s speaker diarization. Upload a recording, get back a multi-speaker annotated transcription. Make a JSON API and I’ll be…
jw1224 on HN
Questions
Maximum audio length and hosting costs
From 1 comment
What is the maximum length of audio allowed? What are your costs in running this? Are the hardware requirements substantial?
rexreed on HN
How well Whisper handles non-English languages
From 1 comment
I didn't manage to transcribe anything (it just doesn't remember that I submitted anything), but whatever, I didn't need to anyway. I just wanted to ask: how good is Whisper with…
krick on HN
Alternatives named
whisper.cpp for local transcription
From 1 comment
This is a cool project. I’ve been very happy with whisper as an alternative to otter; it works better and solves real problems for me. I feel compelled to point out whisper.cpp.…
n8cpdx on HN
Otter
From 1 comment
This is a cool project. I’ve been very happy with whisper as an alternative to otter; it works better and solves real problems for me. I feel compelled to point out whisper.cpp.…
n8cpdx on HN
Read.ai
From 1 comment
There’s a lot of startups starting in the space offering transcription. Read.ai - https://www.read.ai/transcription Provides transcription & diarization and the bot integrates…
lettergram on HN
Simonsays.ai
From 1 comment
I (used to) use simonsaysai.com to generate subtitles and they had the functionality to input specialized vocabulary, so I suppose it's possible in some sense but I don't know…
mayeaux on HN
Vosk
From 1 comment
Exciting to see. Curious if there was a benefit to using whisper over something like vosk which can transcribe on mobile device pretty decently. Whisper has other interesting…
j45 on HN