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@bedast so long the model is outsourced to OpenAI and the like. You can always be certain everything you ever watch on VLC will be beamed to a third party "for improvement". Auto-generated subtitles might be better than no subtitles, but not at the cost of constantly feeding third parties with your data. And of course, if we are talking of OpenAI's models, they are known to outright invent nonsense phrases when they tried audio transcription a few months ago. Id not trust an hallucinegic liar. 4 comments
@starsider @bedast the CES demo makes it clear the transcription is **off-device**, ie, syphoning data. And besides, there are already many built in tools for that on macOS and linux. If i wanted fucked-up nonsense on my videos i would watch a raunchy youtube poop from the early 2010s Id rather have a phoneme-based system where at least you can tell what the gibberish came from and you can tell its an error, and even reconstruct the sentence back. We do not need this. @starsider @bedast and... If you think whisper is anywhere being remotely adequate for the job, clearly you do not rely on subtitles to hear, nor consume information and media through foreign sources. The pitfalls are very apparent and very damaging for the actual purpose of "understanding what is actually happening". Random hindi people with tutorials about the weird obscure software you are trying to debug are always an incredibly easy test these... Abominations. always fail |
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@zanagb @bedast VLC will do it in-device, not sending anything anywhere.
Whisper models are terrible at transcribing casual conversations of doctors and patients because the training data doesn't reflect that kind of speech and environments. But it excels at transcribing movies etc. because a lot of its training data are closed captions. So this would actually work reasonably well. One can put some text with the names of characters, places, etc. as context and that makes it transcribe those names very well. (source: I've been using whisper models at work, and occasionally I've been putting the mic towards the speaker with some show I'm watching to test) (also: I haven't sent any data to openai nor paid them anything)
@zanagb @bedast VLC will do it in-device, not sending anything anywhere.
Whisper models are terrible at transcribing casual conversations of doctors and patients because the training data doesn't reflect that kind of speech and environments. But it excels at transcribing movies etc. because a lot of its training data are closed captions. So this would actually work reasonably well. One can put some text with the names of characters, places, etc. as context and that makes it transcribe those names...