++ for Whisper. I’ve used it transcribing podcasts. It occasionally has problems identifying obscure and unusual words, but it seems to work better than most. When I tested it on an episode of Tetrapod Zoology podcast, it mis-transcribed: "Tetrapod Zoology” as "Tedgeport Zoology” podcast, “Mesozoic Art” as "Mises Ewick Art” and “TetZoo” as “Tetsu” But everything else looks spot on. ( I haven’t checked spelling of proper names, but human transcribers would have trouble there. ) It worked even better on a podcast with less technical jargon and neologisms. There are other ports/implementations of Whisper In C++: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp & Rust: https://github.com/Gadersd/whisper-burn And others using different ML frameworks than PyTorch, which are worth trying if you need more performance. - sdm > On Dec 10, 2023, at 2:52 PM, Sove67 <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hi Charles, > > I'm not familiar with any on that list, but you may be interested in > Whisper: https://github.com/openai/whisper > > Rather than a traditional "pipeline" ASR software, this model utilizes > machine learning. It was built by OpenAI, the folks who made ChatGPT. I've > been impressed by it. > > 1. It runs on local hardware, no connection to an exterior server needed > 2. Able to translate speech to text in real time. (Kaldi, the topmost > example on your list has been noted as being "several times slower": > https://deepgram.com/learn/benchmarking-top-open-source-speech-models#kaldi-gigaspeech-xl > ) > 3. Open Source software licensed under the MIT license, so it can be > used & modified for free in private or commercial settings. > 4. I know it runs on Windows 10 (see the setup section on the github > page), and it should be compatible with Linux systems, using an installer > like Anaconda: > https://www.linuxlinks.com/machine-learning-linux-whisper-automatic-speech-recognition-system/ > > > Best of luck with your project! > - Kaleb A (Langara LIT Student) > > On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 1:28 PM charles meyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> My esteeme listmates, >> >> Has anyone used any of these in Windows 10 or any Linus distro? >> >> >> https://www.ubuntupit.com/best-open-source-speech-recognition-tools-for-linux/ >> >> Thank you, >> >> Charles. >> >> Charlotte County Public Library >>