WAAS
AI
speech to text
SHOW HN2023
267points
54comments
#182of 3,109 in 2023
Top 6%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
5 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 3 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Performance: 3 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Runs OpenAI Whisper locally with MIT-licensed model
From 1 comment
Yes. This runs the OpenAI Whisper model locally.
olekenneth on HN
Objections
No GUI yet
From 2 comments
There's no GUI though
MitPitt on HNWorking on it. https://github.com/schibsted/WAAS/pull/101
olekenneth on HN
README needs work
From 1 comment
Thanks for feedback. Looks like the Readme need more work
olekenneth on HN
Requests
Streaming real-time transcription endpoint
From 1 comment
Is it possible to create a streaming endpoint that returns real-time transcriptions?
magicseth on HN
Questions
Is it better than YouTube auto transcripts?
From 1 comment
Is the Whisper model better than say Youtube's auto transcribing? I hope it is because the one on YT gets so much wrong it's almost comical.
sgt on HN
Alternatives named
whisper.cpp
From 1 comment
By the way there is also another project called Whisper.cpp: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp Which uses x8 less memory than the Python implementation for the tiny model.…
henry_viii on HN
transcribe-anything
From 1 comment
People interested in this might also be interested in transcribe-anything [1]. It automates video fetching and uses whisper to generate .srt, .vtt and .txt files. [1]…
silviot on HN
whisper-ui
From 1 comment
Whisper-UI is also looking really nice lately but I think it's still pretty early in development. The ability to click on the transcript and hear the sound of that particular…
raybb on HN
Vosk
From 1 comment
Vosk https://alphacephei.com/vosk/lm You can restrict the vocabulary the way you like, for example, here is the chess app built with Vosk https://www.chessvis.com/
nshm on HN