AFAIK iOS and macOS have had this for some time now. I think since a couple years back it’s all local-only on newer devices as well.
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Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de 8 months ago
Maybe you don’t even need that, at least for accessibility.
Windows for example now has exactly this feature, which is a speech-to-text-transformer powered by some “AI”. But, in contrast to the Bing chat, this works (afaik) offline by some FOSS-backend, which I don’t know the name of anymore (maybe someone else will?) You could use that tool for live transcription. (Side note: as strongly as I hate Windows, this feature is absolutely godsend for hearing-impaired people and should be adopted by every other OS!)
If you want to transcript movies and thereof in bulk, I can’t give you any information, sorry.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
rentar42@kbin.social 8 months ago
Android does on-device transcription of any Audio source as well in recent versions!
The issue with providing this with open-source software is that it tends to require deep integration into the OS, which needs pretty much the same kinds of APIs that spyware also needs, so they get locked down a lot ...
For example on Android I'm pretty sure that a 3rd party play store app could not provide the same feature without requiring the user to click through unavoidable some scary sounding warnings from the OS (if at all).