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MacWhisper AI speech to text transcription
I don't know if this has come up here before. I do a lot of "logging" when I'm working on projects or documents, which until now has involved typing typing typing tippy tappy etc... This article showed up yesterday that intrigued me, and I followed up:
Last year or so I had several hours of mp3s of recordings of biographical interviews that needed to have in text form. I tried commercial alternatives, and they failed miserably mostly for two reasons: 1) the quality of the software didn't meet the requirement (and it cost $300), and 2) because they were mp3s instead of live recording/transcription, the software didn't work properly. I literally ended up transcribing the hard way, which took endless hours.
I still had the mp3 files from those interviews, so I downloaded MacWhisper and ran a few of them through the app. The results were astounding. The only things it stumbled on were proper names, but that's to be expected, because they would rarely show up in the AI model (which in fact was 680,000 hours of audio-text modeling), but for everything else I'd give it a score of about 97% or better.
I tried it on a few YouTube news broadcasts and it stumbled when the speakers garbled or slurred their words, but even in those cases, the accuracy was better than 80%.
I bring this here in case there's a need somewhere in your routine.
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Thanks for this! Mileage may vary; on the auto-detect language setting it thought I was speaking Welsh, and when set manually to English it was less accurate than VidCap (which arrived on Setapp last week and I've been using a lot). But it may be an accent thing. I'll try the Pro version, which is discounted to €8 once you download the free version.