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Ask HN: Full text search for audio files?

by heap_perms on 5/27/23, 12:16 AM with 2 comments

I was wondering if anybody knows open source projects that implement transcription to provide a grep-like functionality for mp3 files?

Of course I could write it myself, but I'd rather not want to re-invent the wheel here.

  • by mcint on 5/27/23, 2:14 AM

    Right now, the best I know of would be to get a transcript with whisper, and grep that. Do you know of better ways? Searching for a waveform for certain words is not quite something that anyone's done yet, to my knowledge.