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Thanks a lot for this. I've wanted to test whisper's usefulness for vintage movie subtitling projects, but haven't had such a straightforward, preconfigured opportunity. I promise I'll beat the subs into some sort of shape as long as the timings are at least vaguely alright, and not waste your money.

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Hey, glad I could be of use. The problem with Whisper is that it needs a lot of GPU. Actually my Mac can't even use my GPU so right away I had to get it up on a server, but Whisper is so powerful and it's so amazing that it's open source I am surprised nobody did this yet. I could see them charging for it but may as well use it anyways, the other services are insanely expensive ($10/h?!) and I don't really like their UIs to boot lol

Nothing has come back from the two that I tried (one medium in French, the other large in Spanish), meaning no change on the page since I uploaded them an hour an a half ago. I loaded the page again in another tab, though, and after a few seconds "finishedProcessing" appeared under the form. I suspect that means something.

On Firefox 102.4.0esr, also uBlock Origin.

It's probably due to me rebooting to load new code, I will have a way to send a signal to the frontend to inform them but not implemented atm

I tried it again this morning. I'm getting all of the output properly this time, but it has hung partway through every time I tried.

It's me again. Ran it again, ran perfectly. Thanks for all of your work.

edit: don't know if you'll see this any time soon, but I've had it fail/hang again. You might want to take a hash of uploads, so if the lost connections still end up getting transcribed, if they're reuploaded they won't get transcribed again.

Also I haven't had success in Firefox, only Chromium.

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