Podcast to text in Python: transcribe any episode from its RSS feed
I wanted transcripts of a few podcast episodes for notes and search. The options I found were either a web service with a monthly plan, or a Whisper…
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Whisper Keeps Correcting Nigerian Speech. Here's How I Measured It
What I Benchmarked I've been fine-tuning Whisper on Nigerian speech for a while, and I built this benchmark to measure my model against the standard…
Как я в одиночку написал сервис для расшифровки видео — и три раза чуть не забросил из-за одной и той же ошибки
Дисклеймер сразу: я не собирался писать «ещё один стартап». Мне просто было лень руками пересматривать видео, чтобы выписать из него тезисы. Дальше…
Whisper без облака: локальное распознавание чувствительных записей
Представим юридическую фирму, у которой за несколько месяцев накопились сотни часов аудиозаписей. В них нужно искать фамилии, даты, показания и дета…
How I pick a voice input setup for PC typing (2026)
How I pick a voice input setup for PC typing (2026) I type a lot on a laptop — chat replies, long AI prompts, the occasional email in another langua…
Whisper.cpp Vulkan on Arch: A Detective Story With No Crime
A six-week journey through source builds, CI pipelines, and one package pacman never mentioned. TL;DR: pacman -S whisper-cpp ggml-vulkan . That's it…
Defects Missed in Transcription — AI Speaks After 0.5-Second Silence
📝 Originally published (in Japanese) at forge.workstyle.tech . Quality Control for TTS Models: Why Transcription Isn’t Enough I used to perform qual…
Why AI Models Sometimes Elongate Their Greetings Like 'Kon'nichiwa~'
📝 Originally published (in Japanese) at forge.workstyle.tech . When I had the trained voice model read "こんにちは" (Hello), it stretched the phrase to "…
From Zzz's to Data: Building an AI-Powered Sleep Apnea Monitor with Whisper-v3
Sleep is the ultimate black box. We spend a third of our lives doing it, yet we have almost zero data on what happens during those eight hours—unles…
Practical Techniques to Improve Faster-Whisper Recognition Accuracy — Use Recent Conversations, Not Dictionaries, for initial_prompt
📝 Originally published (in Japanese) at forge.workstyle.tech . Techniques That Actually Improved Accuracy When Running Faster-Whisper as STT for Rea…
DaDaScribe API: YouTube Multi-Language Transcript + SRT in One Request
Most transcription APIs still force you to do this: Download the YouTube video Extract the audio with yt-dlp + ffmpeg Upload the file Call the trans…
My First GitHub Project: From A Local Folder To GitHub Using Git And SSH
Introduction. I have folder with files sitting quietly on my laptop, and the idea of turning it into a "real project" on github feels like a mountai…
Streaming ASR vs Whisper on mobile: when to switch
The problem: Whisper feels laggy for live apps Voice-first apps became mainstream in 2024-2026. Voice agents, real-time captions, live meeting trans…
Snoring Secrets: Fine-Tuning Whisper-v3 to Identify Sleep Apnea Events Like a Pro
Have you ever wondered if that loud snoring is just a nuisance or a genuine health red flag? Sleep Apnea detection is traditionally done in uncomfor…
The Culprit Behind the 'Slow Speech' Bug in Voice Conversion Was Whisper's 30-Second Limit
📝 Originally published (in Japanese) at forge.workstyle.tech . While building a voice conversion app, I received a report like this: "The recording…
Stop Sending Your Snores to the Cloud: Build a Privacy-First Sleep Guardian with Whisper-tiny and TCN on Raspberry Pi
Let’s be honest: no one wants their private nighttime "soundtrack" (a.k.a. snoring or heavy breathing) being uploaded to a corporate server for "ana…
How to Run Voice-to-Text Locally on Your Desktop (Whisper, Offline Dictation)
OpenAI trained Whisper on 680,000 hours of audio, and the small models that came out of it run on a laptop CPU in real time. That power sits idle wh…
How to Transcribe Meetings Locally in 2026 (Whisper, On-Device)
OpenAI's Whisper model runs accurate speech-to-text on a laptop GPU, and the C++ port runs it without Python or a cloud account. That capability sit…
The Video I Kept Avoiding
I had this one video sitting on my desktop for days. Not a polished video. Not something I was excited to edit. Just one of those long recordings wh…
Why Privacy Became the Reason We Built PolyTalk
When we started building PolyTalk, privacy wasn't the problem we were trying to solve. Language was. The idea was simple: make conversations between…
Mumbli – my personal Wispr Flow
My text-to-speech journey started roughly a year ago, when I tried it again and was impressed by how much faster it was than typing. I'd been fascin…
SpeakShift: A Fully Local Desktop App Powered by Whisper.cpp + NLLB + FFmpeg
SpeakShift: Fully Local Whisper.cpp + NLLB Translation + FFmpeg Media Converter Hi DEV Community 👋 Like many of you, I spend a lot of time working w…