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Re:Show HN: Scriber Pro – Transcribe 4.5hr video in 3.5min, ... by fl_rn_st on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:21AM (#45592072)
"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.

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Re:Show HN: Scriber Pro – Transcribe 4.5hr video in 3.5min, ... by rezivor on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:29AM (#45592208)
Whisper will fail > 99%* (edit, most of the time) of the time at lengths over 90 minutes and fairly high over one hour.
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Re:Show HN: Scriber Pro – Transcribe 4.5hr video in 3.5min, ... by saaaaaam on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:54AM (#45592617)
This is absolutely not my experience. I regularly (weekly at least) use whisper for 90-120 minutes pieces of content and only rarely have problems.
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Re:Show HN: Scriber Pro – Transcribe 4.5hr video in 3.5min, ... by fl_rn_st on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:37AM (#45592339)
This 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.
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Re:Show HN: Scriber Pro – Transcribe 4.5hr video in 3.5min, ... by rezivor on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:52AM (#45592579)
I've never had whisper complete a single attempt a anything over 75 min
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Re:Show HN: Scriber Pro – Transcribe 4.5hr video in 3.5min, ... by gcr on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:23AM (#45593059)
I’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.

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Re:Show HN: Scriber Pro – Transcribe 4.5hr video in 3.5min, ... by pmarreck on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:11PM (#45595625)
Can't really declare that without declaring which whisper model in particular you are referring to, as there are a number of them
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