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

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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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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 44 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I mean, here it is used optionally to help with accessibility. That is objectively a good use of AI.

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[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago

Also it's running locally. I think the biggest problem with AI is the data harvesting and this is just not that

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