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You can run it locally, and it's really fast. But since YouTube transcription is really good, I don't see why you'd use Whisper and get a worse transcription (u
by kajecounterhack 2y ago
You can run it locally, and it's really fast. But since YouTube transcription is really good, I don't see why you'd use Whisper and get a worse transcription (unless maybe it's on videos that Google did not transcribe for whatever reason).
- gs17 2y ago> But since YouTube transcription is really good Are you sure you're looking at automatic transcripts? YouTube transcripts are bizarrely low quality if they're not provided by the creators (I've actually used my Google Pixel's live transcription to make better captions occasionally). I just checked a video my girlfriend uploaded a week ago and the auto-transcript was still pretty messy. I've used Whisper for the same task and it's significantly better.
- ofou 2y agoAgreed. However, you can get great YT transcriptions using GPT-4o mini to clean them up.
- jokethrowaway 2y agoThat's crazy, months ago I compared whisper v2 transcripts with YouTube transcripts generated on my video and found them to be identical, down to the timestamps. I know people who upload a video on YouTube unlisted just to get transcripts generation for free and then delete the video.