This is really awesome, great work! I downloaded a long video from YouTube that is very challenging to transcribe (it is an interview with Hayek, who was both very soft spoken and had a thick German accent) because I wanted to evaluate OpenAI’s claims about whisper being “superhuman” in recognition. It was a bit picky about having the audio in the exact right format (it needs to be 16kHz wav files— would be really nice it just include ffmpeg in the release and automatically pipe any input first to ffmpeg to convert to the desired format), but once it got started it just cranked away extremely quickly on my iMac M1. And the results do seem to be pretty good. I just wish the model also did some basic speaker identification, so it could insert “Speaker1:” or something at the beginning of each line/timestamp. Even if it’s not sure, it could insert “Speaker<?>:” and that would still be useful.