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Re:Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete... by anigbrowl on Friday October 21, 2022 @03:05PM (#33291848)
Whisper is free and classroom instruction should be a breeze and require little correction, as there likely isn't much background noise or music.
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Re:Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete... by sofixa on Friday October 21, 2022 @03:52PM (#33292339)
And it only works with English. As discussed elsewhere in the thread, the majority of the videos are in Hebrew.

Even for much less exotic languages such as French automatic speech recognition systems don't work or are extremely bad.

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Re:Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete... by anigbrowl on Friday October 21, 2022 @04:40PM (#33292795)
I mentioned Whisper because it works with a lot of languages. But I understand your confusion, because there are additional lightweight models that are only available for English. Its accuracy is less good for Hebrew, but instructional materials are likely optimal input.

https://github.com/openai/whisper

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Re:Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete... by johndough on Friday October 21, 2022 @04:09PM (#33292509)
> And it only works with English.

Depending on how you define "work", Whisper also works with Hebrew. Not sure if the word error rate is acceptable though https://github.com/openai/whisper/#available-models-and-lang...

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