Amgad’s Substack • 3 HN points • 27 Mar 24
- Benchmarking different whisper frameworks for long-form transcription is essential for accuracy and efficiency metrics such as WER and latency.
- Utilizing algorithms like OpenAI's Sequential Algorithm and Huggingface Transformers ASR Chunking Algorithm can help transcribe long audio files efficiently and accurately, especially when optimized for float16 precision and batching.
- Frameworks like WhisperX and Faster-Whisper offer high transcription accuracy while maintaining performance, making them suitable for small GPUs and long-form audio transcription tasks.