For those that follow, you’ll know I’m currently obsessed with AI, voice to text transcription, and the intersection of AI and voice-to to text transcription.
I wrote some thoughts about “the perfect voice transcription tool” - which unfortunately still doesn’t exist.
But what did happen this week is that MacWhisper found a way to 3x the speed of their transcription model. And that boost in speed is enough to make it better than Otter or HappyScribe for my use case.
So yesterday I unsubscribed from HappyScribe.
MacWhisper transcribes locally on your machine. You can trade accuracy for speed, and it has a free tier. I’ve paid for it because I want to support Jordi, and because I want to run batches of audio files through it.
The quality isn’t quite as good as HappyScribe, but since its local I can quickly get ChatGPT (or Jordi’s MacGPT) to fix it up. The added time to fix the differential errors is less than the time it takes to upload to HappyScribe, wait for the transcription, and download the file.