Live in-browser AI transcription and translation
A realtime, live transcription and translation app that works locally using a browser. Built with Huggingface Transformer.js and Supabase Realtime. Realtime in-browser speech-to-text with OpenAI Whisper! Broadcast to subscribed clients with Supabase Realtime. Translate to 200 languages with Meta's NLLB-200! Demo & source code https://supabase.link/realtime-ai-yt Shoutout to @xenovacom for building Transformers.js and providing plenty of examples at https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers.js/en/index#example...
Live in-browser AI transcription and translation launched on August 8, 2024 with 15 votes, #1,120 of 5,471 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
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This is a browser-based application that transcribes speech to text in real time and translates it into up to 200 languages, all running locally on the user's device. It uses OpenAI's Whisper for speech recognition and Meta's NLLB-200 model for translation, with Supabase Realtime enabling live broadcast to multiple connected users. The tool is built with Huggingface's Transformer.js library and is designed for anyone needing instant multilingual transcription without server uploads.
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A realtime live transcription and translation app built with Huggingface Transformer.js and Supabase Realtime. - supabase-community/babelfish.ai
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