Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Alecs Ștefănescu @catileptic@chaos.social

3/14/2025, 10:59:32 AM

Public

Fellow developers, what used to be the go-to FOSS library for audio-to-text before Whisper crammed itself into every nook and cranny?

(I am not looking to produce reliable, absolutely correct transcriptions. I'm only looking for "best effort" transcriptions.)

I've been trying to use Whisper (faster-whisper, to be precise) and the process keeps getting killed in spite of the fact that I don't literally run out of memory. Oh and chunking audio, afaik, should be done on periods of silence? Uhh..

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