Sometimes if I hit the voice typing on my phone, which I'm pretty sure is whisper, and then don't say anything, it just comes out with nonsense.

Just did this and also got...

Thanks for watching!

yep, I would rather generate one with Claude to my liking and make it more efficient (target the CLI for example)

There is a desktop app already — macOS, Windows and Linux. It's Tauri rather than Electron, so it's a much smaller download, and it's meant for the cases a page is bad at: long files and batches, with large-v3-turbo instead of the small models the browser is limited to.

Worth knowing before you try it: the builds are unsigned, and burning subtitles into the picture needs an ffmpeg built with the ass filter (Homebrew's plain ffmpeg formula doesn't have it; the Windows build offers to install one for you).

tauri is better and more efficient for this.

That depends much more on the model size than on the year. In the browser we're limited to small models — tiny (English only), base and small, 40 to 250 MB — and on a German TV show those are exactly where Whisper gets shaky.

The desktop app and the CLI can run large-v3-turbo (1.6 GB, 99 languages), which is a different experience on non-English speech. If your last try was a small model, that's the part worth changing before judging it.

No but other models have. parakeet-unified is currently the best small model.

You can tell OP vibe coded the whole thing from their outdated model choice.

I've used Whisper on my private peertube instance recently and the results were pretty decent

i get ya, but also a lot of people don't have a dedicated self hosted setup. recently my hdd died and all my films were there, so now i'm downloading and deleting, which just feels like a drag to start bazarr for one film. this is handy for some people.

Not system-wide audio, but per-tab: there's a browser extension that puts subtitles over whatever is playing in the tab, transcribed as it plays. It's in the Chrome and Firefox stores now, free and AGPL like the rest. It won't replace OBS + localvocal for anything outside the browser, but there's no filter chain to set up — install it, open the tab, hit Start.

Two things to set expectations. It runs behind the audio: it transcribes in windows, and on integrated graphics that's tens of seconds, so the overlay prints how far behind it currently is rather than pretending it's live. And it only works where the page itself plays the media — a site embedding someone else's player in an iframe, or a file served without CORS headers, can't be captured at all, and it tells you so instead of sitting there.

On permissions: it asks for no site access when you install it. When you hit Start it requests that one site, and nothing else.

Honest answer: for files that size, use the desktop app rather than the web page. The browser build holds the decoded audio in memory, so multi-GB files are where it starts to struggle, and I haven't tested anything close to 10 GB in a tab.

The desktop app (macOS, Windows, Linux) exists for exactly this — long files, no browser in the way — and it can use large-v3-turbo (1.6 GB, 99 languages) instead of the small models the web version is limited to. Two things worth knowing before you download: the builds are unsigned, and burning subtitles into the picture needs an ffmpeg built with the ass filter.

Files are processed one at a time, so a 50-hour fan edit split across many files is a batch job rather than one run.