dilek
openai is impacted too
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prompt engineering is a thing, and it's not a thing that you get on social media posts with emojis or multiple images.
is it a public-facing product?
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/s... https://picovoice.ai/platform/cheetah/ https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech
if you're using the hosted whisper, they can. however, they don't specifically talk about it.
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i just wanted to share my 2 cents, as it's not unique to Apple and the cloud can be costly even if you own it. Big tech has been investing in on-device for a while. besides voice commands, apple and google do transcription locally too. because now you can have local speech to text with cloud level accuracy and of all the reasons you shared - cost, privacy, latency etc. (but again, i'm biased)
https://www.androidauthority.com/voice-typing-opinion-322134... https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/apple-adds-live-captions-t...
https://www.amazon.science/blog/on-device-speech-processing-...
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Speech-to-Text with JavaScript – Tutorial
1. Install the software 2. Run the code to convert video to text 3. Create an SRT (SubRip subtitle) file
Example: Adding subtitles to a video on YouTube with pytube.
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