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Just pitching in a transcription tool that lets you transcribe video and audio files using Whisper and WASM in your browser, and get a .txt, .srt, .vtt file. Maybe in the future support for Whisper Turbo?

https://video2srt.ccextractor.org/

Disclaimer: Working on this project.


Thank you :D Maybe on the future a privacy friendly translator can be found to translate the SRT, currently Whisper only supports other languages to English :/


Thank you <3


I'm not familiar with the ASU, but will these College Credits be only useful to students in the United States, or students from Europe will be able to convert it to ECTS?


One mistake I found there was never a Google Ello, it was Google Allo


Sorry typo there, I’ll fix that


Is this going to be one of the killed by Google projects or can we only hope that it'll be alive


Absolutely do not expect long term support.

I'm more curious if the community will be able to keep the project alive or if Google is going to keep the project theirs.


right now google is at the "makes cool projects and you should get what value you can from it in the first year then dip" stage.

so yeah, it's a cool product that came out. give it a whirl but don't rely on it.


> Apple buys Waymo and becomes dominate force in automated driving

Isn't Waymo part of Alphabet? Google won't let them easily go to a competitor I think that will dominate the world


The biggest question is will companies start migrating to Flutter from Electron.

Plus who will decide to use this in a market dominated by Electron?


[raises hand] If it can avoid a >100 MB hello world, I’m on board. That makes it worth learning a language I would never have heard otherwise.


If that's a serious suggestion then...

* Dart/Flutter {iOS, Android} [0]

* (Scheme|Lua|C)/IUP {Linux, Windows, macOS} [1]

* (QML with JS)/QtQuick {Windows, Linux, macOS, UWP, Android, iOS...} [2]

* (C++|Rust|Go|Python...)/Qt {Windows, Linux, macOS, UWP, Android, iOS...} [3]

* (TCL|Ada|Haskell|Python...)/Tk {Windows, Linux, macOS} [4]

* (TCL)/Hecl {Windows, Linux, macOS, Android} [5]

* (Scheme|C|JS|Haskell...)/GTK+ {Windows, Linux, macOS, Android^} [6]

* (C++|Python|Ruby|...)/WxWidgets {Windows, Linux, macOS, {Anywhere GTK or Qt run...}} [7]

(^ May not be stable or officially supported)

... All the platforms listed are cross-platform.

Some look native, some don't, but no Electron app does anyway.

Most package to single binary, some need proper packaging.

All are very simple to get started.

Tk has the least features, but TCL is just a shell language, so getting started is ridiculously easy. However, Tk can do things like inject its frames into any running process's window.

QT and GTK+ are the most powerful, which can confuse newcomers. But they're still simple to do simple things with.

I've used all but Flutter in a professional environment (but evaluated it), sometimes as maintainer, sometimes building something new. They're all solid. Different drawbacks with all of them, but there's always tradeoffs in programming.

For a beginner, I'd probably recommend QtQuick or WxWidgets.

[0] https://flutter.io/

[1] http://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/

[2] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquick-index.html

[3] https://wiki.qt.io/Language_Bindings

[4] https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/tk.htm

[5] https://www.hecl.org/

[6] https://www.gtk.org/

[7] https://www.wxwidgets.org/


Most of them have been tried for ages and never got anywhere, and still look like crap (e.g. tcl).

Others have crappy support for different platforms (e.g. GTK and Windows/OSX) and that's for decades, not just because they are new.

None of them has the promise of Flutter: modern JS-like language, dead easy development, simple IDE support, cross platform, nice UI toolkit, hot reloading, and so on.


> modern JS-like language, dead easy development, simple IDE support, cross platform, nice UI toolkit, hot reloading, and so on.

That would be QtQuick.


Nobody cares about the "market" (in fact, there's no "market").

You ship apps, and they can be in whetever you like. No user cares if the app is in Electron or whatever (except only negatively, as Electron wastes resources).

If Flutter apps run faster and eat less resources, people will go to them, everything else being equal.

More dev currently using Electron will not matter.


Or may be Electron will improve to the point where Switching to Flutter didn't matter?

It doesn't matter which framework really, any improvement is much better then what we currently have. WhatsApp on Mac currently uses 1GB Memory sitting there doing nothing. Not too bad for an Electron App I guess since Telegram uses 650MB after being opened for 48 hours, but it does sit at 150MB once it is closed and reopened.

And before anyone else say Memory were suppose to be filled, consider that paging actually lower the lifespan of a SSD, I have currently done 2TB of writing over the past few days.


Also some developers may not like that source code in Electron apps is always accessible.


Baby steps. First have a viable alternative, then the rest may follow. :)


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