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Why? Just use whisper directly. The model and code is available and I think there’s even a homebrew formula...
by idorosen 3y ago
Why? Just use whisper directly. The model and code is available and I think there’s even a homebrew formula...
- michelb 3y agoI just want to drag and drop my files and be done.
- nickthegreek 3y agoWhy? Just use MacWhisper and have a great interface with a bunch of options.
- speedgoose 3y agoI have both installed. I use macwhisper because the GUI is convenient.
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- Etheryte 3y agoWhy use a web browser? Just use curl directly. The code is available and I think there's even a homebrew formula...
- idorosen 3y agoI deserved that curl snark. :o) Web browsers are mostly free and don't try to upsell you to a Pro paid version. The MacWhisper author deserves to be compensated for their work, so I'm not objecting to the existence of a paid version. This feels like yet another relatively low value freemium/upsell wrapper in the Mac shareware ecosystem to me. I'm probably wrong and there's a real population that benefits from this work, clearly some folks perceive it as useful enough to pay for it and I'm just not in that audience to see it. I think part of what rubs me the wrong way about this is that it feels to me like commercial freeloading due to the thinness of the commercialized wrapper around a free/open core in this case (whisper model + code); it feels ethically questionable unless the author contributes back some portion of the proceeds to research in some way -- I didn't see evidence of that. I'm probably being naive here, happy to have a less snarky discussion about it though.
- yard2010 3y agoWhy'nt?