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It has the payment button at least
It seems that both use / leverage pyannote. I wonder if the whisperX pipeline can be combined with DiCoW-v2.
Yes, this is exactly where I am going. The LLM also has an advantage, because you can give it the context of the audio (e.g. "this is an audio transcript from a radio show about etc. etc."). I can foresee this working for a future whisper-like model as well.

There are two ways to parse your first sentence. Are you saying that you used whisperX and it doesn't do well with diarization? Because I am curious of alternative ways of doing that.

It seems to be pre-built on github, in releases.
I use whisperfile[1] directly. The whisper-large-v3 model seems good with non-English transcription, which is my main use-case.

I am also eyeing whisperX[2], because I want to play some more with speaker diarization.

Your use-case seems to be batch transcription, so I'd suggest you go ahead and just use whisperfile, it should work well on an M4 mini, and it also has an HTTP API if you just start it without arguments.

If you want more interactivity, I have been using Vibe[3] as an open-source replacement of SuperWhisper[4], but VoiceInk from a sibling comment seems better.

Aside: It seems that so many of the mentioned projects use whisper at the core, that it would be interesting to explicitly mark the projects that don't use whisper, so we can have a real fundamental comparison.

[1] https://huggingface.co/Mozilla/whisperfile

[2] https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

[3] https://github.com/thewh1teagle/vibe/

[4] https://superwhisper.com/

There was an article around here about how battery life actually improves if you ultra-fast charge the battery when you make it.

Maybe it will deteriorate it, but it seems that the effect that different charge types have on batteries may not be complete yet.

Re:Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained on Sunday March 16, 2025 @08:22AM (#43378456)
I have to add https://nullprogram.com, just because of the care the author took to have it work better in lynx[1]:

    Just in case you haven’t tried it, the blog also works really well with terminal-based browsers, such as Lynx and ELinks. Go ahead and give it a shot. The header that normally appears at the top of the page is actually at the bottom of the HTML document structure. It’s out of the way for browsers that ignore CSS.
[1] https://nullprogram.com/blog/2017/09/01/
Re:Show HN: Subtrace – Wireshark for Docker Containers on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @03:26PM (#43107159)
Is this a different method from the httptap [1] that was on hackernews a few weeks ago? Somebody in that post seemed to say that it also generates CA certificates on the fly.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42919909

Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? on Thursday February 13, 2025 @05:37AM (#43034625)
I use Zotero[1] as a personal web archiver. It downloads the page locally, placing most of the resources inside a single html file (pictures become base64 encoded pngs, for example). I find it the best way to have the content available offline and also to be able to reference it easily, seeing as it is a citation manager first.

[1] https://www.zotero.org/

It can, but that's another type of "shallow", or more exactly "not-deep" cloning, called blobless cloning [1]. There is also treeless cloning, with other tradeoffs, but much to the same effect.

I found this[2] very enlightening.

[1] https://github.blog/open-source/git/get-up-to-speed-with-par...

[2] https://www.howtogeek.com/devops/how-to-use-git-shallow-clon...

Re:Composable SQL (Functors) on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @04:08AM (#42863014)
I assume that framework is not open-source or somewhere I can look at it?
Not the OP, but they are "Headers". Probably coming from the <h1> tag in html. What outsiders probably call "Headlines".
What libraries have you seen that do this?
Re:Unforgeable Quantum Tokens Delivered over Fiber Network on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @04:58PM (#42511438)
You don't need error correction for some crypto primitives. There are QKD networks deployed that don't have that kind of error correction, as far as I know.
Re:Unforgeable Quantum Tokens Delivered over Fiber Network on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @09:18AM (#42508880)
With quantum tokens, law enforcement have to crack your physical devices, so they at least have to good-old-fashion bug your devices. With classical schemes, they can intercept on the way.

I wouldn't say that current side-channels, most certainly enabled by hardware, not software, are easier to audit.

Re:Unforgeable Quantum Tokens Delivered over Fiber Network on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @09:13AM (#42508858)
Yes, in theory. In practice, photon generators won't behave perfectly. There are lots of possible attacks, like photon splitting [1].

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/qute.202300...

Re:Derivatives don't always act like fractions (2021) on Monday December 16, 2024 @10:36AM (#42432000)
Would you mind giving us the titles of those books?
Re:Derivatives don't always act like fractions (2021) on Monday December 16, 2024 @06:18AM (#42430043)
You can always try infinitesimal analysis[1]

[1] https://people.math.wisc.edu/~hkeisler/calc.html

Re:Willow, Our Quantum Chip on Monday December 09, 2024 @02:53PM (#42369841)
Simulating a quantum system is a hard challenge and it's actually how Feynman proposed the quantum computing paradigm in the first place. It's basically the original motive.
Re:Willow, Our Quantum Chip on Monday December 09, 2024 @01:19PM (#42368829)
Re:AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS on Thursday June 06, 2024 @11:51AM (#40598881)
I wonder if following the mouse for focus would be doable without disabling SIP. It's one of the features I didn't even see in other macOS WM.
Emacs itself added support for Android, so you can find Emacs proper in package managers like f-droid, or even build it yourself.

Seeing as you can do most things from Emacs, as well as making Emacs as light as you wish, it might replace termux + vim altogether, especially now that it comes with a lsp client builtin.

Would you be interested in posting the library here, or the vector parts? Your use-case sounds interesting to me.
Re:I'm puzzled how anyone trusts ChatGPT for code on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @05:40PM (#40302974)
In an ironic twist, the original Lisp paper has mismatched parentheses.
Re:Verified Rust for low-level systems code on Saturday May 04, 2024 @06:16PM (#40260733)
Is there any relationship between this and Kani[1]? Do they work differently?

[1] https://github.com/model-checking/kani

Re:How to Use JSON Path on Saturday May 04, 2024 @08:15AM (#40257075)
The thing about querying tree-structured data being currently humanly harder than tabular data rings true to me, I always struggle with some very simple tree-sitter queries.
Re:How to Use JSON Path on Friday May 03, 2024 @01:35PM (#40250186)
The Readings in Database Systems book calls it "general purpose hierarchical data format" at some point, which seems the most fitting name for me.

You generally don't see yaml or XML be called that, but there's some information on the net that you can find about it.

Re:How to Use JSON Path on Friday May 03, 2024 @09:15AM (#40247325)
Seems easier to create a program where you can click the element and it shows the jsonpath itself
Re:Making a 3D modeler in C in a week on Friday May 03, 2024 @06:08AM (#40245978)
Why is there a link between WebAssembly and rasterization? Genuinely curious, it seems interesting
Re:I'm writing a new vector search SQLite Extension on Friday May 03, 2024 @02:19AM (#40244689)
Really nice to see Wasm there, usually vector search in sqlite wasn't available in the browser.

Did you ever consider making it syntax compatible with pgvector, in order to have a common SQL vector DSL? I am sure the benefits are much smaller than the disadvantages, but I'm curious if it's possible.

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