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transcribing videos (two speakers)
I know there have been endless transcription app posts. But can someone recommend an actually good app for batch transcribing text from long (about an hour each) video files, assuming there are multiple speakers in each video (usually 2). Extra points if it can work on files that are stored in network drive but that is not critical.
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Try Spokenly (https://spokenly.app/). Been using it several months already with local Nvidia Parakeet model. Works great. Transcribed hour long podcasts (my own recordings) with several speakers - no problems.
TranscribeX. Also see this post.
for that exact use case (long video, batch, 2 speakers, diarization) macwhisper is the cleanest mac option. drop the .mp4 in directly, it pulls audio out, runs whisper plus pyannote-style diarization, batches multiple files at once. if you want to go cli/free the underlyign stack is whisperx (whisper + pyannote), works fine on a couple-hour video. network drive support is hit or miss with the gui apps so maybe copy locally first either way.
MacWhisper Pro has speaker diarization built in and handles batch via a queue, so you can drop a folder of 1hr videos and walk away. The free tier doesn't include diarization. If you don't mind command-line, whisper.cpp + pyannote-audio is the OSS route but you'll spend an evening wiring it together. Network drive should be fine for either, both load the file once, no streaming.
VoiceInk https://tryvoiceink.com/ is too good. Its a lifetime app, been using it for more than 6 months. Fed up of the monthly subscription models. I find it useful with my usecase, where I use it for the NotebookLM audio transcribing since it has 2 voices having conversation about a concept (Ideally the notes i feed). this is close.
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