Whisper API: a) Timecodes; b) how good is open-source vs API?

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Whisper, how to tag different people in (sound) conversation

Here is a video I ran across awhile ago, where they use Whisper (open source version) for the transcription, and AWS Transcribe to detect the speakers. Note: Also a GitHub link to code in the video. [63. How to automate transcripts with Amazon Transcribe and OpenAI Whisper] They are using the timestamps from both streams to correlate the two. However, the Whisper API doesn’t support timestamps (as of now) whereas the Whisper open source version does. Without the Whisper timestamp…