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Re:Ask HN: How to transcribe a couple thousand calls per day? on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @02:52AM (#41564998)
I transcribed between 3000 to 4000 of 10s-30s short videos, every day for almost 2 years for fun. A cheap desktop linux with second hand x-mining RTX 3060 and 3080Ti, connected over home network using basic Gradio and faster-whisper, so they can be exposed as public API and called from corporate network. Relatively easy and much cheaper compared to commercial offerings at the time. These GPUs are over powered for the task and every day only spent 1 to 2 hours of actual encoding, it's so quick, and it's using the biggest whisper model with audio preprocessing and VAD to improve success rate.
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with loss of motivation? on Saturday February 25, 2017 @11:28PM (#13735682)
Paddle harder. Motivation is like wave/wind on the sea. Easier to get around with it, but we still have to move on with life even without it, even if it's harder, slower, or more painful.
Re:Hans Rosling has died on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @04:33PM (#13593028)
This person inspires me, very sad day.
Re:Show HN: Headphone Enhancer for Techno and 5.1 Movies on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @08:51PM (#8817908)
The latency kills the videos.