Request for Odia Trancription Feature

[spandanghoshal]

I sincerely appreciate the incredible work you have done in developing this tool. It is truly a blessing for individuals like me who rely on transcription services for non-profit, spiritually inclined projects. Your contribution is making a significant impact, and I am deeply grateful.

I would like to kindly request the addition of Odia (the language of the Indian state of Odisha) to the transcription feature, if possible. I have a collection of important lectures in Odia that need to be transcribed, and this enhancement would be immensely helpful for our efforts.

Additionally, if there is a way I can contribute to incorporating Odia support myself, I would be more than happy to receive any guidance, suggestions, or technical direction from you. I am eager to learn and assist in any way possible.

Thank you again for your time and for this wonderful tool. I look forward to your kind response.

Best regards,
Spandan Ghoshal

[RyanMetcalfeInt8]

Hi @spandy9681!

Thanks for the kind words! Let me look into Odia a little bit... for some background, the 'whisper' AI models that this project uses for transcription were trained by others -- we basically just pick up those open source models and put them into a format that is compatible with this project. So, when it comes to Odia language, we'll need to find some version of a whisper transcription AI model that supports this language. For example, I see one here: https://huggingface.co/chandan3007/Whisper-small-oriya

When I have some time (perhaps end of this week), I can play around with this to see if it's easy to convert this model into the format required to use with these plugins.

Thanks!
Ryan