Trainspodder&Whisper Transcribes both English & Russian, capturing Ramzan Kadyrov's taboo speech...
Channel: Niels Mayer
Date: 12/10/2022

Showing Trainspodder's updated GUI for displaying Whisper Transcriptions ( https://github.com/openai/whisper/ ) as an additional analysis source, this demonstrates some of the features, both bad and good, of using Whisper for free-form transcription of podcasts and broadcasts within Trainspodder. Trainspodder's own display of segmentation, speech/music segments, beat-events, BPMs, etc also provides good and consistent timing markers against the transcribed text, potentially including speaker-detection for multi-party conversations, esp if the voices are tonally different.

In this particular example, we see the feature of Whisper effortllessly breaking into multilingual translation, including translating a noncaptioned video speech in Chechen-accented Russian by Ramzan Kadyrov that contains content that would not sit well with the majority of the Convo Couch's liberal audience, and probably was not translated before airing or they wouldn't have shown it...

FYI, I'm using the following whisper call to process these media files:
'whisper --language English --model medium --condition_on_previous_text False --compression_ratio_threshold 1.8 $*'

The original broadcast being played is at 
https://odysee.com/@TheConvoCouch:3/putin-condemns-crimean-bridge-bombing,:1
(Putin Condemns Crimean Bridge Bombing, Russia Strikes Back At Ukraine, Media Hypocrisy)

Please note that any copyrighted media being played back is under "fair use" for purposes of demonstration of this app, and research into AI Audio auto-transcription and deep-searching of podcast and broadcast media, aka https://www.trainspodder.com