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Krisp zoom8/27/2023 (I suspect it’s just easier to build a web app than add major new capabilities to multiple mobile and desktop apps.)Īnd how are the transcripts? In my experience, about as good as other AI-powered ones, which is to say better than my notes but not quite ready to publish. Krisp CEO and co-founder Davit Baghdasaryan has a deep security background and said he’s looking forward to implementing this. But if you’re willing to trust another transcriber, why not this one? And anyhow, there will soon also be an option to keep your transcripts completely on device. The transcript itself is sent directly to Krisp’s cloud service, which for some kind of negates the security advantage of on-device transcription. I’m not sure what threat models that’s important to, but I suspect they exist and will only get more prominent in the coming years. On-device transcription is a key differentiator, for one thing because it’s simpler than dealing with audio files, and for another because the audio of your meeting never leaves your computer. The transcription agent doesn’t need to talk to any services or APIs, it just identifies voices coming in and going out, and transcribes them, on your device. So there’s no need for the “AI Meeting Assistant” to integrate with Google, Teams, Zoom or anything else, or be a phantom attendee - it deals strictly with your audio signal before it goes out or before theirs hits your ears. Krisp already operates more or less behind the scenes, acting as a passthrough for audio sources. So when they told me they were getting into transcription I was happy to hear it: It’s a natural extension of a voice-focused platform, and of course they know they can get a clean voice signal in. The advance that made it possible was basically training the system to recognize and isolate human voices, which while diverse are also distinct and very different from dogs barking, traffic noise and so on. Krisp has also shown a certain single-mindedness over the years, focusing on effective noise reduction across lots of devices and services. Wherever I can shave a few minutes or clicks off my workflow I’m usually interested. Compared to just a few years ago this is very convenient, of course, but the number of meetings we take online has multiplied. My transcribing experience is usually a matter of downloading the video or audio associated with a meeting, provided someone thought to record it (and I know who that someone was), then uploading that file to a service like Otter and waiting 10-15 minutes while it processes. I have a guide showing you how to do both here.Krisp got its start as an AI-powered noise-cancellation service, but now the startup is moving beyond that with instant on-device transcription of all your calls and meetings - and of course it integrates ChatGPT now for quick summaries as well. Its performance is slightly better than Krisp, but it’s not worth ruining a recording or an important video conference call when the bugs show up.Īgain, for mild noise cancellation such as PC fans, I recommend using OBS’s built in RNNoise or Audacity’s Noise Reduction effect. Perhaps the NVIDIA Broadcast version is getting better stability patches, but the RTX Voice standalone option is way too buggy for me to recommend. Overall, I recommend Krisp over RTX Voice. The second bug was RTX Voice crashing randomly and requiring a full system reboot to start it up again. You can find other people reporting this same issue on Reddit - it’s been going on for a long time now. I won’t include the actual audio to save your ears, but here’s the waveform from Audacity. In the middle of my tests, without changing any settings, the volume spiked to as high as it could possibly get and created an incredibly loud blaring screech.
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