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@mattbirchler mattbirchler released this 18 Jul 22:37
v1.4.0
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quicksubs now has two extra transcription engines beyond Apple's built-in one: OpenAI Whisper and NVIDIA Parakeet. (Both landed since the last release, 1.2.0.)

What's new

  • New --engine option with three choices:
    • apple (default): Apple's on-device SpeechAnalyzer, no download.
    • whisper: OpenAI Whisper, highest accuracy (about 626 MB model).
    • parakeet: NVIDIA Parakeet, fastest (about 400 MB model), transcribing well above real time on Apple Silicon.
  • If the Quick Subtitles app already downloaded a given engine's model, the CLI reuses that copy in place, so there is no second download. Otherwise it downloads the model once and reuses it on every later run.

Setting QUICKSUBS_NO_APP_SETTINGS=1 still skips reading the app's data, which also skips reusing the app's model, so the CLI downloads its own copy.

Install or upgrade

brew install mattbirchler/tap/quicksubs
brew upgrade quicksubs
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