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by hildekominskia 328 days ago
Skip pyannote 3.1; two battle-tested upgrades:

1. NVIDIA NeMo’s `diar_msdd_telephonic` (8 kHz) or `diar_msdd_mic` (16 kHz) — one-line Python install, GPU optional, beats pyannote on cross-talk. 2. AssemblyAI’s async `/v2/transcript` endpoint — gives you `words[].speaker` + Whisper-level accuracy for 40+ languages. Free tier: 3 h / month.

Glue either to your existing Whisper pipeline and feed ChatGPT-4o with speaker-tagged text. The jump in clarity is night-and-day.

I use the same combo to auto-caption interviews, then drop the synced footage into Veo 3 (https://veo-3.app) for instant talking-head explainers—works even for non-English audio.