>How do you detect speech starting and stopping? https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

You could look into https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper especially the VAD section (Voice Activity Detector) using https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad. Source: 11 months ago

I also had the same synchronization issue, so I wrote a WebUI/CLI that uses Silero-VAD that first splits the audio whenever there a silent portion (or every 30 seconds), and I haven't experienced it since:. Source: 12 months ago

By the way, I've updated the WebUI to now also support using Silero VAD to break up the audio into distinct sections, and run Whisper on each section and then combine them into one single transcript/SRT file. Source: over 1 year ago

And while googling this, I stumbled upon this discussion on the Whisper GitHub repository, which seems to suggest that the issue is that the current VAD (Voice Activity Detection) is quite poor, and that it can be resolved by using another VAD (like silero-vad). This might be something I want to add to my WebUI in the future. Source: over 1 year ago

There's dozens of tools out there for this these days. I'd recommend sonix.ai they give you 30 minutes free. Source: 11 months ago

Do you have a budget? If so, there's this tool I've worked with called Sonix that generates transcripts of what you feed into it. It's not super accurate, but it's good enough. One of the features is that you can "highlight" chunks of text, and have it spit out an XML that will have a sequence containing only the highlighted text. Source: about 1 year ago

Sonix was the one I used because it had 30 free minutes and the video was only 10-11 minutes long. It seems to have done a really decent job, but not sure if that's because the source audio is pretty clear. Source: about 1 year ago

Sonix.ai does many languages and is quite good. Source: over 1 year ago

I am struggling with this as well, but one good tool for me has been sonix.ai, which can transcribe pretty well (posted a little while ago about it). Source: about 2 years ago