I use Speech Note for STT/TTS and it works great. You can choose between different models, I use whisper (more accurate) or Vosk (faster). You don’t need a GPU, but it will speed things up greatly
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I was able to quickly set up and use whisper (base) using Speech Note without issue and it saved me over 80% of what I would have had to manually do. Thank you for the recommendation.
Depends on what the audio is. What's the crisis?
Generally, you can use CPU for anything based on pytorch, it will just take substantially longer.
Transcription of numerous voice mails and phone calls for a legal matter. Would like to supply transcripts with the audio files so we don't have to pay as much time for the lawyer's paralegals to review and decide what is actually going to be useful.
Start with Whisper as someone else mentioned. DeepSpeech by Mozilla is another simple one.
Both are similar in performance and accuracy for normal spoken conversation with no extra auditory noise.
Whisper worked for me. I'll have to go back through and tag speakers and fox a few spots but you guys have saved me 80-90% of the work. Thank you.
I’ve had good experiences with whisper.cpp (should be in the AUR). I used the large model on my GPU (3060), and it filled 11.5 out of the 12GB of vram, so you might have to settle for a lower tier model. The speed was pretty much real time on my GPU, so it might be quite a bit slower on your CPU, unless the lower tier models are also a lot faster (never tested them due to lack of necessity).
The large model had pretty much perfect accuracy (only 5 or so mistakes in ~40 pages of transcriptions), and that was with Dutch audio recorded on a smartphone. If it can handle my pretty horrible conditions, your audio should (hopefully) be no problem to transcribe.
I used the base model and it ran at a very acceptable speed with CPU only. Decent accuracy considering the recording was mediocre quality at best. Thank you for the suggestion.
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