[FR] file transcription?

[mawnir]

I have some files I need to transcribe, and I’d prefer to keep using only this tool instead of switching to others—unless it’s too much work. Another thing: I can’t use the Fn shortcut on my MacBook. Also, Parakeet v3 sometimes transcribes in languages other than English, so I’d love to be able to lock it to English only.

[cjpais]

This may be added in the future

Parakeet doesn't allow you to pick a language as far as I'm aware.

[mawnir]

Thank you.. and the Fn shortcut in MacBooks?

[cjpais]

Other issues have discussed. It requires some work to fix.

[william-daconceicao]

File transcription could be awesome !

[a-b]

I'm also very interested in this feature. Do we know exactly what needs to be done and how to help?

[a-b]

As a temporary solution, I think it may be possible to use a virtual microphone and play a file through it, although this isn't very user-friendly.

[cjpais]

@a-b the best way to help would be to mock out the UI and how you would have it work, I can give feedback on this. transcribe-rs supports transcribing files of the right format and should be straightforward. if files need to be resampled, probably can use rubato which the project already has as a dependency for resampling and maybe hound for reading the files iirc.

[ollieglass]

Hi @cjpais

For the UI, for a minimal first version, how about adding a menu item? It could show "Transcribe file...", and clicking it would open a system file open dialog.

Then the existing flow could be reused - the existing "Transcribing..." display could be used to show the file was transcribing, and the output pasted to the OS as normal.

[cjpais]

@ollieglass @a-b @mawnir could one of you move this into a discussion? I think this would be a good thing to have in the future. Would love to have a PR implement it in a clean way. And if no one is capable of a PR, please mock up and provide screenshots of a UI so someone could go implement it