| ▲ | simonw a day ago |
| This quote is pulled from a TikTok, I recommend watching the whole thing here: https://www.tiktok.com/@belligerentbarbies/video/75683800086... (I pulled the quote by using yt-dlp to grab the MP4 and then running that through MacWhisper to generate a transcript.) |
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| ▲ | donatj a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's a little over two paragraphs. Seems like it would have been simpler just to... type it out? |
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| ▲ | daliusd 21 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Well if you do it once then yes, but if you automate this process it is different. E.g. I do this with YouTube videos, because watching 14 minutes video or reading 30 seconds summary is time saver. I still watch some videos fully, but many of them are not worth it. So in summary I think it was just part of automated process (maybe) or it will become one in the future. | |
| ▲ | simonw 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Why spend two minutes typing (and realistically longer than that, if I want to capture the exact transcript I would need to keep hitting pause and play and correcting myself) when I can spend ten seconds pasting a URL into my terminal and then dragging and dropping the resulting file onto the MacWhisper window? I actually transcribed the whole TikTok which was about 50% longer than what I quoted, then edited it down to the best illustrative quote. | |
| ▲ | adlpz a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Where's the fun in that? :D | | |
| ▲ | mavhc 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | We choose to automate these things, not because they are easy, but because they are an interesting problem to solve |
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| ▲ | rererereferred 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | But then you would need a Brenda. Ai can write the automation script for you. |
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| ▲ | 6thbit 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This may be the first quote from TikTok reposted on a blog, that ends up this high up in HN. |
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| ▲ | self_awareness 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I can see that MacWhisper uses parakeet v2 as the model (although it allows choosing another model). Is MacWhisper a $60 GUI for a Python script that just runs the model? |
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| ▲ | trenchpilgrim 21 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Is MacWhisper a $60 GUI for a Python script that just runs the model? Yes, a large genre of MacOS apps are "Native GUI wrappers around OSS scripts" | | |
| ▲ | jimbokun 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | A lot of MacOS itself is this. Which is incredibly value. The OSS script has zero value to someone who doesn't know it exists or doesn't understand how to run it. |
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| ▲ | simonw 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | There's also a free version that just uses Whisper. I recommend giving it a go, it's a very well constructed GUI wrapper. I use it multiple times a week, and I've run Whisper on my machine in other less convenient ways in the past. |
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| ▲ | sionisrecur 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You... could have given the job to Brenda instead, unless the irony was the point? |
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| ▲ | simonw 19 hours ago | parent [-] | | The global economy isn't going to crash if I make a mistake with the transcript. | | |
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