WinWhisper

If you are working in a niche that entails transcribing speech into text, then chances are that you already heard of Whisper.NET. This is not the technology used by Amazon until 2021, but rather an open-sourcing neural net dubbed Whisper, a promising technology that can come in handy for speech recognition and transcription.

Although less known compared to other AI models, Whisper has great potential when it comes to speech recognition and especially English for the time being. WinWhisper is one example of the power of the Whisper AI and it is a tool that enables provides a simple console interface that enables you to interact with the model.

The idea behind the tool is to provide you with a quick way to generate subtitles for videos, thus simplifying your work on projects that entails extracting information from videos. To get started, you need to run the executable and enter the path to your video. You will be happy to learn that you can just as well use drag and drop to add any local video. You can specify the desired language, but if you leave it blank, Whisper will use auto-detection.

Depending on the power of your hardware and the length of the video, you may need to wait for some time for the subtitles to be generated. The files are saved in an SRT format and can be found in the dedicated Subtitles directory.