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Whisper is great, but Google's built-in speech-to-text thing in Chrome with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_API/Using_the_Web_Speech

by ilaksh 4y ago

Whisper is great, but Google's built-in speech-to-text thing in Chrome with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_API/Using_the_Web_Speech_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_... has been available for quite some time and works well. Not sure if Firefox has a implementation, probably one that works locally but not nearly as well. Obviously not having to send all of the data to Google is a big deal. But practically speaking the Google recognition seems to perform extremely well. So not sure this is really a new capability for people if they were willing to use Google's servers. It seems like Firefox and Chrome should now ship with Whisper built in. Or they should work on that.. and if Chrome doesn't add it then.. that's suspicious.

qwertox 4y ago
You may want to read my comment which I posted to another comment, it has a comparison to Google's ASR.
krisoft 4y ago
> So not sure this is really a new capability for people if they were willing to use Google's servers. Of course it is. Google is providing the API at their largess. One day they can decide they won't do it anymore, or they will charge you huge piles of money, or they decide they don't like something about your data and they won't process it even for all the money. Or will do it but only send back nonsense to you. It is their endpoint and they do whatever they are pleased with it. On the other hand you can take Whisper and use it on your own computer. Or rent a computer from anyone who does that kind of service. If you don't like how it performs you can refine it on your own datasets. If you have tens of thousands hours of sound files you want to convert you can just calculate what it will cost you to convert with Whisper. With google? Good luck. The difference between running Whisper on your own hardware vs using Google's endpoint is the difference between having your own car vs the mercurial rich guy not minding if skaters hold on his taillights to hitch a ride for now.

by ilaksh 4y ago

qwertox 4y ago

You may want to read my comment which I posted to another comment, it has a comparison to Google's ASR.

krisoft 4y ago

> So not sure this is really a new capability for people if they were willing to use Google's servers. Of course it is. Google is providing the API at their largess. One day they can decide they won't do it anymore, or they will charge you huge piles of money, or they decide they don't like something about your data and they won't process it even for all the money. Or will do it but only send back nonsense to you. It is their endpoint and they do whatever they are pleased with it. On the other hand you can take Whisper and use it on your own computer. Or rent a computer from anyone who does that kind of service. If you don't like how it performs you can refine it on your own datasets. If you have tens of thousands hours of sound files you want to convert you can just calculate what it will cost you to convert with Whisper. With google? Good luck. The difference between running Whisper on your own hardware vs using Google's endpoint is the difference between having your own car vs the mercurial rich guy not minding if skaters hold on his taillights to hitch a ride for now.