Re: Translating captions

[Esteban Ordóñez]

El 2022-12-08 22:19, Jean-Christophe Helary escribió:
>> On Dec 9, 2022, at 11:58, Esteban Ordóñez <quiliro@riseup.net> wrote:
>>
>> El 2022-12-08 17:12, Jean-Christophe Helary escribió:
>>
>>>> If it takes so long to transcribe, wouldn't it be easier to transcribe
>>>> manually?
>>>
>>> Manual transcription requires around 10 minutes per minute of talk.
>>
>> I calculate that it takes (someone who knows how to touch-type) about 2
>> seconds per word to transcribe, including corrections during and after.
>> So, if the speaker speaks at 1 second per word, transcription would take
>> 2 minutes per minute of talk.
> 
> Ten minutes is the accepted value for commercial transcription
> services. It also depends on the density of the talk, the experience
> of the transcriber, etc.
> 
> Average speaking rates depend on the material, of course:
> https://virtualspeech.com/blog/average-speaking-rate-words-per-minute
> 
> 150 wpm would be 2.5 wps.
> 
>>> Whisper is way faster than that.
>>
>> Probably it depends on the processor.  GPU processing is the one in
>> charge of these repetive tasks.  I am not sure how efficient it is to
>> use free software for GPUs.
> 
> On my 7-year-old Macbook Pro, it’s fast enough that I can spend my
> time working on things the computer can’t do in my place :-)

Thank you very much for this information.