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Re:Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, ... by BonoboIO on Thursday February 09, 2023 @04:01PM (#34731396)
What software do you use to transcribe the speech? Whisper?
Re:Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, ... by anonbuilder on Thursday February 09, 2023 @04:19PM (#34731645)
Yes, using Whisper running on banana.dev :)
Re:Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, ... by nshm on Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:58PM (#34732963)
Do I understand correctly banana pricing is that it costs $1.87 per hour, so the hour of audio with large model costs you about $1? Thats probably a bit too expensive compared to cloud providers.
Re:Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, ... by georgel on Thursday February 09, 2023 @09:56PM (#34735088)
> 1 hour of audio processing with Whisper on Banana costs <30 cents.

From their page on Whisper: https://www.banana.dev/deploy-whisper

Re:Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, ... by nshm on Friday February 10, 2023 @09:40AM (#34740217)
Thats probably medium model
Re:Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, ... by thundergolfer on Thursday February 09, 2023 @10:30PM (#34735274)
Whisper can be run on CPUs and produce high-quality transcripts. Doing it on CPU is like a 10th the price and more horizontally scalable.

This is using CPUs: https://modal-labs--whisper-pod-transcriber-fastapi-app.moda....

Transcribes a 1hr podcast in 1min for ~3-5cents.