More AI toys
I recorded a meeting on my phone between three people. I needed a transcript. There are several online services, but I tried a couple and wasn’t at all happy.
The the robot suggested I download an app called Vibe, powered by OpenAI’s Whisper. It lives locally on your computer. You feed the audio into it and a transcript comes out the other end (after a time, naturally).
It did a fantastic job. It didn’t label the three participants, which was a pity, but the text was clean and nearly perfect (a few proper names off and some rather bizarre repetition of one-liners).
Uncle B is off sobbing in the corner. So much of his career was spent doing interviews – and then, o god, transcribing them by hand.
Posted: June 8th, 2026 under personal.
Comments: 2
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Comment from Uncle AL
Time: June 8, 2026, 8:00 pm
Sound like a great app, stoaty! It wouldn’t listen to and transcribe videos would it?
I have looked but haven’t found a superset AI transcriber that will listen to the sound track of a video and produce the equivalent of closed captions when those aren’t presented as part of the stream. Doing this in real time seems to me to be asking too much but I’d dearly love to be able to point the app to a video, let it churn for a while, then watch the video and have the transcript/captioning either superimposed or shown in a screen-in-screen window.
The automated/AI captioning out there today leaves much to be desired.
Somebody with the tech skills plus a savvy marketeer could make a bunch of bucks from us aging people with failing ears.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 8, 2026, 8:02 pm
I think it would. It’s free. Why not try?
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