Summary created by AI.
In this lengthy discussion, users primarily grappled with an anomaly in the Whisper transcription service: it purportedly translated one of pudepiedj’s podcast episodes into Welsh despite the input audio’s language being English. Intriguingly, he observed this phenomenon despite specifying ‘English’ as the language in the API call.
One potential cause posited for such behavior was certain English accents being mistaken for being Welsh by the Whisper model. Users, such as linus and curt.kennedy, proposed workarounds like specifying the language in API settings and using prompts to garner correct transcriptions.
Notably, pudepiedj succeeded in running transcriptions locally on his Mac using PyTorch with his AMD Radeon Pro 5500M GPU. This feat involved upgrading his MacOS to at least Ventura 13.0 and installing pytorch-nightly via Conda. This approach drastically cut the transcription time down, implying successful GPU invocation. To help users dealing with similar problems, iamflimflam1 recommended using whisper.cpp for local execution and GPU support on Macs.
As the discussion continued, subirats345 asked if it was possible to configure the language using the API via Node.js.
Summarized with AI on Nov 24 2023
AI used: gpt-4-32k