diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c94d219..3260d60 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,16 +1,15 @@ # noScribe ## Cutting Edge AI Technology for Automated Audio Transcription -**Download** +**Download current beta release vers. 0.4b:** +- Windows: [https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/EIVup04qkSHb54j?path=%2FnoScribe%20vers.%200.4b%2FWindows](https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/EIVup04qkSHb54j?path=%2FnoScribe%20vers.%200.4b%2FWindows) +- macOS (alpha version, ported by [gernophil](https://github.com/gernophil)): +[https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/EIVup04qkSHb54j?path=%2FnoScribe%20vers.%200.4b%2FmacOS](https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/EIVup04qkSHb54j?path=%2FnoScribe%20vers.%200.4b%2FmacOS) +> These are alpha or beta releases. [Please report your experiences here](https://github.com/kaixxx/noScribe/discussions/28) or open an issue if you find errors. Thank you! -Current beta release, vers. 0.4b:\ -Windows: [https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/EIVup04qkSHb54j?path=%2FnoScribe%20vers.%200.4b%2FWindows](https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/EIVup04qkSHb54j?path=%2FnoScribe%20vers.%200.4b%2FWindows)\ -macOS (alpha version, ported by [gernophil](https://github.com/gernophil)): [https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/EIVup04qkSHb54j?path=%2FnoScribe%20vers.%200.4b%2FmacOS](https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/EIVup04qkSHb54j?path=%2FnoScribe%20vers.%200.4b%2FmacOS) -> These are alpha or beta releases. Please report your experiences here: https://github.com/kaixxx/noScribe/discussions/28 or open an issue if you find errors. Thank you! - -Last stable release, vers. 0.3:\ -Windows: [https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/EIVup04qkSHb54j?path=%2FnoScribe%20vers.%200.3%2FWindows](https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/EIVup04qkSHb54j?path=%2FnoScribe%20vers.%200.3%2FWindows)\ -[Readme for vers. 0.3](https://github.com/kaixxx/noScribe/blob/main/README_v0_3.md) +Last **stable release,** vers. 0.3: +- Windows: [https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/EIVup04qkSHb54j?path=%2FnoScribe%20vers.%200.3%2FWindows](https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/EIVup04qkSHb54j?path=%2FnoScribe%20vers.%200.3%2FWindows)\ +- [Readme for vers. 0.3](https://github.com/kaixxx/noScribe/blob/main/README_v0_3.md) ## What is noScribe? - An AI-based software that **transcribes interviews** for qualitative social research or journalistic use @@ -20,7 +19,7 @@ Windows: [https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/EIVup04qkSHb54j?path=%2FnoScribe%2 - It includes a **nice editor** to review, verify and correct the resulting transcript - It is standing on the shoulders of giants: [Whisper from OpenAI](https://github.com/openai/whisper), [faster-whisper by Guillaume Klein](https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper) and [pyannote from Hervé Bredin](https://github.com/pyannote/pyannote-audio) - + ![Main window](img/noScribe_main_window.png) (The transcript is from [this interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOwajAbvPzQ&t=2018s) which I did in May 2022 with the Russian sociologist Natalia Savelyeva.) @@ -43,7 +42,7 @@ The [urban dictionary](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Scribe) d - Start the downloaded setup file. This may take a while, be patient. ### Settings - + - Select your **audio file** and a **filename for the transcript.** - **Start** and **Stop** accept timestamps in the format hh:mm:ss. Use this to limit the transcription to a particular part of the recording. This is especially helpful to test your settings with a small sample before committing to transcribe the whole interview, which may take several hours. Leave Stop empty if you want to transcribe till the end of the audio file. @@ -109,7 +108,7 @@ The noScribe Editor is a separate app that can also be run independent from noSc - If you want to change the language of the user interface, you have to change the value of the "locale" setting in the advanced settings (see above). ### MAC and LINUX support -- noScribe has been ported to macOS by [gernophil](https://github.com/gernophil): (https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/EIVup04qkSHb54j?path=%2FnoScribe%20vers.%200.3%2FmacOS) (alpha version, Apple silicon M1/M2 only) +- noScribe has been ported to macOS by [gernophil](https://github.com/gernophil): (https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/EIVup04qkSHb54j?path=%2FnoScribe%20vers.%200.3%2FmacOS) (alpha version, please help testing!) - If you want to port noScribe to Linux, go ahead! There once was a working version but it is no longer up to date. - If you make any changes to the code of noScribe, try not to break compatibility with other platforms. I would like to keep one single codebase for all platforms.