diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3d16a16..ffcaa97 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,15 @@ # whisper_streaming Whisper realtime streaming for long speech-to-text transcription and translation +**Turning Whisper into Real-Time Transcription System** + +Demonstration paper, by Dominik Macháček, Raj Dabre, Ondřej Bojar, 2023 + +Abstract: Whisper is one of the recent state-of-the-art multilingual speech recognition and translation models, however, it is not designed for real time transcription. In this paper, we build on top of Whisper and create Whisper-Streaming, an implementation of real-time speech transcription and translation of Whisper-like models. Whisper-Streaming uses local agreement policy with self-adaptive latency to enable streaming transcription. We show that Whisper-Streaming achieves high quality and 3.3 seconds latency on unsegmented long-form speech transcription test set, and we demonstrate its robustness and practical usability as a component in live transcription service at a multilingual conference. + + +Pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14743 + Demo video: https://player.vimeo.com/video/840442741 ## Installation @@ -174,7 +183,7 @@ Contributions are welcome. ### Tests -Rigorous quality and latency tests are pending. +[See the results in paper.](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14743) ## Contact