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jjmaldonis / obsidian-audio-notes

Easily take notes on podcasts and other audio files using Obsidian Audio Notes.
MIT License
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whisper.cpp as local backed #32

Closed homocomputeris closed 7 months ago

homocomputeris commented 1 year ago

Is it possible to configure the plug-in to use (locally built and installed) whisper.cpp to write transcripts?

The main benefits would be:

jjmaldonis commented 7 months ago

Hey @homocomputeris, this is a very late reply but unfortunately it's a ton of work to use whisper as a backend. Deepgram is quite inexpensive and they give away $200 worth of free credits when you sign up. It costs ~$0.25 to transcribe 1 hour of audio, so the $200 worth of free credits gives you ~800 hours of free transcription.

Running Whisper for a service like this quite difficult. If you know how to do it, feel free to fork this repo, get whisper running on your own computer, put an API in front of it, and change the URL in this repo to your computer's local API URL. Unfortunately doing this so other people besides yourself can use it is much, much harder.