[P] I compared the different open source whisper packages for long-form transcription

Hey everyone!

I recently compared all the open source whisper-based packages that support long-form transcription.

Long-form transcription is basically transcribing audio files that are more than 30 seconds.

This can be useful if you want to chat with a youtube video or podcast etc.

I compared the following packages:

1. OpenAI's official whisper package
2. Huggingface Transformers
3. Huggingface BetterTransformer
4. FasterWhisper
5. WhisperX
6. Whisper.cpp

I compared between them in the following areas:

1. Accuracy - using word error …

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