Speech models, any updates

[loninappleton]

I was wondering if VOSK or Whisper had any major updates for use with Subtitle Edit.
A check of AlphaCephai shows the vosk-model-en-us-0.22-lgraph model still on the list.
As to Whisper I don't know what progress there might be in that at all.

VOSK mentioned a major update for 2024 last year.

[Yosho]

I was wondering if VOSK or Whisper had any major updates for use with Subtitle Edit.
A check of AlphaCephai shows the vosk-model-en-us-0.22-lgraph model still on the list.
As to Whisper I don't know what progress there might be in that at all.

VOSK mentioned a major update for 2024 last year.

There were a couple updates yesterday that kinda broke some things on my end it seemed like.
Doing long subtitles now about 8 seconds causes it to freak out and jump back up to the top.
I got a perfect transcription twice with the one 8 second bit split into two.
Then I adjusted the timing to match the scene dialog, ran it again, and it was something completely different...
Sometimes it great, but other times it just doesn't work the way you want it to,
and I guess that's just the nature of these AI and you gotta take it or leave it..

[loninappleton]

Thanks for answering. Sounds like neither has had any major updates.

[mzso]

Hi!

There are a plethora of options in Subtitle Edit. Which audio to text method/option are the fastest? De default Faster-Whisper seems ironically obnoxiously slow.

[loninappleton]

@mzso

Thanks for the response. I checked Vosk a short time ago and expected their announced significant upgrade to appear but the old model numbers are still at the site. And yes I do everything through Subtitle Edit not knowing anything about command line.

Just now I'm not actrive in subtitling. The few I had real _mission_ to do for my own use I've completed and in a shareable source for others. But that's another story. The projects are all plays, some had the AI treatment or transcribed subs and needed a lot of editing, others I ran the tools at Subtitle Edit, then finished with printed published scripts available and added HI (hearing impaired) descriptions.

One thing that stopped me on a project was a documentary of opera star Maria Callas. Whisper would hang when it encountered musical portions and became useless. It may have been my low level PC computer or the source DVD audio. I haven't gotten passed those sorts of problems.