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		sheerun on Jan 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Whisper.cpp example running fully in the browser I think we should make standard browser API for transcribing, otherwise each website wanting to implement private voice recognition will need to download 500MB of data

NVI on Jan 23, 2023 [–]

Perhaps we should call it Web Speech API.

NVI on Jan 23, 2023 | [–]

I was trolling, sorry.

This API already exists. It isn't nearly as good as Whisper.cpp (at least on macOS).

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecog...

Demo: https://codepen.io/Rumyra/pen/NWLyLe

dessant on Jan 23, 2023 | | [–]

An important limitation of Web Speech API is that it only accepts audio from a microphone, you can't transcribe an audio file or a WebRTC call.

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