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The only caveat of the #Whisper project is that it only works on 16-bit #WAV files.

There is a #FFMPEG script on how to do it via the #terminal

ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -ar 16000 -ac 1 -c:a pcm_s16le output.wav

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The ‘Quick Start’ section in the Readme sufficed for setting up.

The only thing that I had to change in the ./models/download-ggml-model.sh script (1) is remove the option --show-progress on line 105. Seems like GNU Wget2 2.1.0 doesn’t have that option.

Alternatively one can replace the option with

--progress=bar --force-progress

• 1: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/blob/master/models/download-ggml-model.sh

#wget #bash

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Instead opted in to using #Whisper which also works with #KdenLive.

Although Whisper is originally written in #Python there is a #CPP project that makes transcribing very fast. It took less than 2min to transcribe the 26 min audio clip.

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

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Originally wanted to use #VOSK to transcribe the #SpeechToText. Initially tried it out over #KdenLive and its ‘Speech Recognition’ tool.

This took quite awhile to setup, since it is not concrete what kind file format, if any, the VOSK model should have. Additionally, the recommendation of setting up a virtual #Python environment didn’t work as expect and went with the global approach.

And finally scratched the whole approach, once realizing that transcribing 26 min audio clip is taking longer than 10min.

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Further options exist like #YouTubeDL (1) or stream via #VLC.

Sometimes I wished that creators would mirror their channels on more permissive sites like #PeerTube or #Odysee that don’t hard-lock into watching ads.

• 1: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

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Alternatively one could also use #FFMPEG to combine the files together via the #Terminal like

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i audio.wav -c:v copy -c:a aac output.mp4

Source: https://superuser.com/a/277667

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Most of the time, I try to watch videos on #Invidious with lower resolution to speed up loading time, especially since I watch by default at twice the playback rate.

Today I realized that some instances permit the downloading of content. And even if one has to download audio and video separate, one can easily merge them together temporarily in one’s favorite #VideoEditor without the need to render the end product.

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This concludes the explanation behind the process of creating a #Paypal partial for #Hugo using #GoLang tricks combined with #HTML, #CSS, and #JavaScript

The #TLDR can be read at https://bf5.eu/post/guide/hugo-how-to-create-paypal-partial/

#blog #writing