Comment by oblio
18 hours ago
First of all: congratulations!!!
Secondly, just curious: any insiders here?
What changed? I see the infrastructure has been upgraded, this seems like a big release, etc. I guess there was a recent influx of contributors? A corporate donation? Something else?
Not an insider, but I noticed that there is now a filter for using Whisper (C++) for audio transcription [1]. It looks like you provide the path to a model file [2].
[1]: https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp
[2]: https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/13ce36fef98a...
You missed out on the thread!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886647 ("FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support (ffmpeg.org)"—9 days ago, 331 comments)
This is big news if it means realtime subtitle generation.
in my experience whisper (at least on my 3070 Ti) is not capable of high quality real-time transcription. A few seconds per second of audio, maybe.