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Comment by vhanda | Hacker News Reader

The title seems quite disingenuous.

A better description would be "A PHP based web app which calls OpenAI's Whisper API to transcribe speech"

I agree. Kudos to the author for sharing a working example of using the OpenAI's PHP Whisper client though. Digging a bit deeper into the organization that released this seems to provide more context: https://beyondco.de/. It appears this is Laravel oriented.

The main reason people add the tech stack is for marketing reasons.

The title describes what it does, I think you're making a mountain out of an anthill.

why php though, couldn't the whole thing not be completely running in the browser?

Many people on HN infamously called Dropbox just an rsync script, right?

It's usually all in the details and delivery (and ya'know we're lazy and lack time to setup stuff locally)

Though I wouldn't really knock anything free and open source either way.

The objection here is more structural than technical. The famous dropbox objection is 'anyone could do this' - even though they might not have the wherewithal to do so. The objection here is that the open source project is relying on a closed source paid service to do all the heavy lifting. Someone is going to need to foot the bill, which means this project will eventually have to answer some tough questions about funding, and what the project actually delivers.

Whisper is open source.

Where can I download the source from?

https://github.com/openai/whisper/

This is not open source. The wrapper may be, but it's using a non open source cloud service.

This thread is about the wrapper, which is open source.

You can run Whisper locally, and it is open source.

Feel free to fork this open source project and adapt it to a locally run Whisper instance.

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