Whisper

“I learned, like, we did not make the developer experience very good. It was very complicated like, because we were using, like, local whisper, local models, and, like, getting it to work on CUDA, Mac, Windows. We didn't do a good job, so it was very difficult …”

“And so whisper V two is better at some things than whisper V three. And so it didn't seem that worthwhile to ship whisper V three compared to like the other things in our priorities. I think we still will at some point, but yeah, it's just, you know, there's a…”

“The big difference right now is still, like, the cost difference of doing speaker diarization this way, or doing transcription this way, is a huge difference to the pipeline that we've built up.”

“Naveen's actually releasing something called monologue. You know, it's kind of like, I think a better whisper flow for the things that we do can run locally.”

“There were four of us in the room, we all closed our eyes, and none of us had any idea, and the model got it right. So, I mean, superhuman.”

“There's many other sort of product surfaces within the app today that are more LM powered, where it's more open-ended, real tutoring, where we actually give you feedback on what you said in the semantics and so on. So that stuff is more like whisper powered, m…”

“And I think a big people, I think there's a big rich ecosystem of people finding whisper and people want the same thing with Voxer. It's much stronger than whisper.”