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Re:Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a ne... by mistercheph on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @03:00PM (#45971240)
For this use case I think best bet is still a toolchain with a transcription model like whisper fed into an LLM to summarize
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Re:Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a ne... by simonw on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @03:02PM (#45971262)
Yeah I agree. I ran Whisper (via MacWhisper) on the same video and got back accurate timestamps.

The big benefit of Gemini for this is that it appears to do a great job of speaker recognition, plus it can identify when people interrupt each other or raise their voices.

The best solution would likely include a mixture of both - Gemini for the speaker identification and tone-of-voice stuff, Whisper or NVIDIA Parakeet or similar for the transcription with timestamps.

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