Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse audio and is also a multitasking model that can perform multilingual speech recognition, speech translation, and language identification.
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librechat
LibreChat is the ultimate open-source app for all your AI conversations, fully customizable and compatible with any AI provider — all in one sleek interface
LibraryOfCongress/concordia: Crowdsourcing platform for full text transcription and tagging. https://crowd.loc.gov
The application invites volunteers to transcribe and tag digitized images of manuscript and typed materials from the Library’s collections. All transcriptions are made by volunteers and reviewed by volunteers. It takes at least one volunteer to transcribe a page and at least one other volunteer to review and mark it complete. Some complex documents may pass through both transcription and review many times before they are accepted as complete by a volunteer.
Concordia is a containerized Python-Django-Postgres-etc web application. The Library hosts its instance in the cloud.
mhumphries2323/Transcription_Pearl: The repository provides access to the source code for Transcription Pearl, an Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) tool, that uses AI to transcribe handwritten documents
A Python-based GUI application for transcribing and processing images containing historical handwritten text using Large Language Models (LLMs) via API services (OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic APIs). Designed for academic and research purposes.
AI 2027
Pretty slick display
The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym | Alfie Kohn
To rely on AI to read for you is no more sensible than using it to write for you. This is true not only because, as I’ve pointed out, its summaries are often wildly inaccurate, but because the intrinsic value of reading is lost when you delegate ChatGPT to extract bullet points from a text. Imagine a world where this becomes the norm, where people’s primary engagement with books and articles consists of telling a computer to boil them down, where even great literature is compressed into a tl;dr. Isn’t this what we’re actually training students to do when our schools are bent to the purpose of preparing them for LLM-centered workplaces? (And, incidentally, how might future writers be affected by realizing that any given reader may rely on software to digest their work?)
PowerPoint Does Rocket Science-and Better Techniques for Technical Reports – Edward Tufte
Easy to draw some parallels to AI usage
How I Automated My Podcast Transcript Production With Local AI · Den Delimarsky
Surprisingly or not, modern advances in AI have given me all the tools that I need to cover the transcription piece, and I was actually tinkering with some automation this weekend that landed me on a very good spot in terms of producing the podcast transcripts at scale and with a high quality.
The Ultimate Guide to Lifehacker’s “How I Work” Series | by Deborah Kay | Medium
Critical Response Process | A Method for Giving and Getting Feedback
Critical Response Process® is a method for giving and getting feedback on creative work in progress, designed to leave the maker eager and motivated to get back to work.