chrisbtoo comments on FFmpeg 8.0 merges OpenAI "Whisper Filter" for automatic speech recognition, Vulkan AV1 encoding, & VP9 decoding

FFmpeg 8.0 merges OpenAI "Whisper Filter" for automatic speech recognition, Vulkan AV1 encoding, & VP9 decoding (www.phoronix.com)

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Vulkan-AV1-Encoding

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Lands-Whisper

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[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hopefully the speech recognition is better than whatever the fuck most online video platforms use for automatic subtitles at the moment.

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[–] pirateKaiser@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

I've built an app with Whisper, the level of 'hit or miss' entirely depends on the size of the model and language. Even audio quality is a lesser factor in my experience. So, it depends...

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[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 point 1 year ago

I was messing around with HomeAssistant the other day, which uses the same speech recognition engine, and I found it to be decent.

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