Does the panel run Whisper locally for transcripts, or is it worth paying Descript or Riverside for the cleanup and speaker labels?

42:25They opened it up and they found that there was liquid damage from beer. It had gummed up all the components. And they're like, yeah, we're not going to cover that under warranty. So beware of used DJ gear. Next question. All right. Paul Valhusanas in Texas asks, does the panel run Whisper locally for transcripts or is it worth paying Descript for or Riverside for the cleanup and speaker labels?

42:49Alexander? Well, I've had some experience with Mac. So I use Mac Whisper and I have used it, although I haven't used it in probably about a year or so, but I own a license for it. It works really well. It runs locally. And it does a really good job of separating the different, identifying the speakers and the audio file. However, I find that I'm now,

43:09because I'm mainly working with video production stuff now, I'm using that feature built into DaVinci Resolve Studio. So you do have to pay for Resolve Studio to get this. But it does have speaker detection and speech-to-text translation. And it works exceedingly well. It saves me a lot of time. and I can actually after you know it processes the hour and it might take

43:33like for say 60 to 90 minutes on my m3 max MacBook Pro it might take I don't know five or six minutes to process all the audio but it does a really good job and then it's all searchable of course so it works really well for me to you know if my client says hey did did so-and-so say that one thing at some

43:53point in the episode and I can just type in a few keywords and boom it It instantly jumps to the point in the timeline where that person has said that. And then I can easily grab the in and out points and grab, if it's a good segment, I can grab that as a clip for social media. So that works really well. And that's what I'm primarily using.

44:10David? Yeah, I'm a big Whisper user. I do a lot of translations via it, translations into subtitles, et cetera. But I find running it local is fine if you have, especially with this community, with all the Mac minis that everybody has just laying around. Just set up one as a Whisper machine, send everything to it, and call it a day. Fenwick. You guys are wicked smart.

44:37So just yesterday I had to do a quick transcript, and I don't use the Resolve, and I don't even know what this Whisper thing is. But I figured out, I found out that you can upload a finished video to Riverside and Riverside will do a transcript of something more than just the stuff that it records for you. I thought that was pretty cool.

44:59Yeah, I also dig the, I dig the one that's built into Final Cut as well for the transcripts just because being able to search through your timeline with text was, is, is just pretty darn powerful. I know that all the editors are doing it and it's table stakes now. But if you haven't tried it because you're like, oh, I don't need that, you should really try it.

45:20I was getting ready when we were doing one of the anniversary episodes for Office Hours. I had pulled the original, like the first episode of Office Hours to try to get a piece of it. And I knew something was mentioned and a story was told. And then I was like, found it. Amazing. Hey, I got a question for you. Did we make you smile today?

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46:04So appreciate it at officehours.global.com. Sorry, I lost your audio there. Oh, next question. No, you're good. Okay. Tommy Shanson, St. Paul, Minnesota is asking, I'm looking into using Riverside. Are there any things to look out for that might make things more difficult than need be? I know Chris Fenwick's a big Riverside champion. I am not. But I'm going to throw it to him anyway, even though he didn't have his hand up.