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MacWhisper crashes at about an hour of context. This uses, smart, invisible regex in the text generation pipe. Makes this fast. + bonus, there is no context li
by rezivor 1y ago
MacWhisper crashes at about an hour of context.
This uses, smart, invisible regex in the text generation pipe. Makes this fast. + bonus, there is no context limit
- barapa 1y agoSmart invisible regex makes it fast and prevents it from crashing? What does that mean?
- grosswait 1y agoI've done 3+hours with MacWhisper without issue? One downside is the transcription is not real time - can Scriber Pro do realtime?
- KPGv2 1y agoI haven't worked in a while with transcription, but whisper.cpp itself (which I assume is the underlying tech behind MacWhisper) does realtime transcription on my MBP with an M1 Pro chip. When I first started writing my last completed novel, I fired it up and just started telling the story to test it out. Realtime. That was back in 2023. I assume things work better now.
- fl_rn_st 1y ago"Smart, invisible regex" sounds like a lot of bs... could you give a more technical explanation? Also the Whisper model doesn't really have a context window, it already segments the audio with a certain amount of overlap between the chunks, I really have a hard time understanding what you are trying to say here.
- rezivor 1y agoWhisper will fail > 99%* (edit, most of the time) of the time at lengths over 90 minutes and fairly high over one hour.
- fl_rn_st 1y agoThis is just plain wrong. I have my own Whisper App in the AppStore (on iOS, with very limited memory capacity) and there are no problems at all with longer Audio / Video files.
- rezivor 1y agoI've never had whisper complete a single attempt a anything over 75 min
- saaaaaam 1y agoThis is absolutely not my experience. I regularly (weekly at least) use whisper for 90-120 minutes pieces of content and only rarely have problems.
- gcr 1y agoI’ve used whisper-cop on 5-hour podcasts without problems. Would also love to hear what you mean by “smart invisible regex,” sounds like AI slop to me.
- pmarreck 1y agoCan't really declare that without declaring which whisper model in particular you are referring to, as there are a number of them
- gcr 1y agoWhat do you mean context limit? Neither whisper nor MacWhisper have any context limit
- CharlesW 1y ago> MacWhisper crashes at about an hour of context. This is not true. (I've been a MacWhisper user since 2023. I have two bugs during that time, which the author addressed quickly.)
- fady0 1y agoI am a MacWhisper Pro user, and I successfully transcribed and translated a 15-hour course inside the app without any issues
- pmarreck 1y ago> Smart invisible regex I've never heard a regex person speak this way of a regex. Please tell me you didn't vibecode the regex... one of the areas it's still not good at