++ 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
>>