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by NVI 1242 days ago
Perhaps we should call it Web Speech API.
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NVI 1242 days ago
I was trolling, sorry.

This API already exists. It isn't nearly as good as Whisper.cpp (at least on macOS).

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecog...

Demo: https://codepen.io/Rumyra/pen/NWLyLe

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dessant 1242 days ago
An important limitation of Web Speech API is that it only accepts audio from a microphone, you can't transcribe an audio file or a WebRTC call.
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