FWIW, OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has an open-source (MIT license) transcriber and translator called Whisper. I tried it, but it was incredibly slow. It took several minutes on a 2019 MacBook Pro to transcribe the first few lines of dialogue.
https://github.com/openai/whisper From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG> on behalf of Coates, Sarah N <sarah.coa...@ufl.edu> Date: Friday, April 7, 2023 at 7:16 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG <CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG> Subject: [External] Re: [CODE4LIB] Using ChatGPT to transcribe manuscripts? Thank you so much, all, for the excellent suggestions! I've passed them on to my colleague, who sends her thanks as well. Sarah ---------------------- Sarah Coates, CA University Archivist University Archives PO Box 117005 George A. Smathers Libraries University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-7005 sarah.coa...@ufl.edu 352-273-2817 ________________________________ From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG> on behalf of Lena G. Bohman <lena.g.boh...@hofstra.edu> Sent: Friday, April 7, 2023 9:50 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG <CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Using ChatGPT to transcribe manuscripts? 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They're really aiming at archives, so it didn't work out, but I was impressed with the product. Lena Lena Bohman Data and Research Impact Librarian Long Island Jewish - Forest Hills Liaison Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell [cid:382462b1-5aec-49b2-adad-38ba0ea99449] ________________________________ From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG> on behalf of Mia <mia.ri...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, April 7, 2023 6:34 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG <CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Using ChatGPT to transcribe manuscripts? EXTERNAL MESSAGE Hi all, A second vote for READ's Transkribus where the use case is transcribing handwritten or typed text from an image. They also have a text correction option. I know people have experimented with ChatGPT for OCR correction, but I suspect it'd do best where the text only contains common words. 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Do > not click any links or open any attachments unless you trust the sender and > know the content is safe. > > You can use AI to help with this, though I don't think ChatGPT is built out > for this kind of work due to its interfacing approach. There are other AI > systems you can try. There was a Code4AI pre-conference this year and the > presenter was using TensorFlow to talk about/show off AI. So you would want > to look into the various AIs available and see which ones are being > built/trained around the kind of work you want to do. > > On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 3:12 PM Coates, Sarah N <sarah.coa...@ufl.edu> > wrote: > > > Hi, all! > > > > I had a colleague ask an interesting question that I didn't know the > > answer to, so I thought I'd pass it along to your collective wisdom. The > > question is: Could ChatGPT assist with transcription work for manuscript > > letters (handwritten, in either print or cursive). For example, could > > ChatGPT help figure out a word if the transcription only had 3 of the 6 > > letters-would ChatGPT be able to identify that word? Has anyone heard of > > someone using ChatGPT (or a similar program) to assist with > transcription > > of manuscript letters? > > > > Thanks! > > Sarah > > > > ---------------------- > > Sarah Coates, CA > > University Archivist > > University Archives > > PO Box 117005 > > George A. Smathers Libraries > > University of Florida > > Gainesville, FL 32611-7005 > > sarah.coa...@ufl.edu<mailto:sarah.coa...@ufl.edu> > > 352-273-2817 > > > **** CAUTION: This email originated from outside of Hofstra University. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. ****
