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FFmpeg 8.0 merges OpenAI "Whisper Filter" for automatic speech recognition, Vulkan AV1 encoding, & VP9 decoding (www.phoronix.com)
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Vulkan-AV1-Encoding

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Lands-Whisper

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[–] data1701d@startrek.website 17 points 12 hours ago

No need to panic in this case. While I hate OpenAI, there's two things to note here:

  • Whisper is an open source library for speech recognition rather than generative AI, run entirely locally. It's just using ML to do something we could already do with computers (speech recognition), but better.
  • They aren't even directly using the OpenAI version - they're using whisper.cpp, a port of the model.