OpenTheo – Transcribed and searchable Bible teaching with Whisper.cpp

What it does

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey all! I just launched OpenTheo, a free collection of transcribed Bible teachings and other Christian material. So far, I've transcribed over 10,000 hours of content for the first time, including teachings from Steve Gregg, Tim Keller, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, and more. Transcripts are fully interactive. You can click on any words in the transcript to instantly start playing the audio at that point in time. The currently playing portion of the transcript is also underlined to make it easier to follow along. Transcripts are produced using ggerganov's Whisper.cpp (https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp). None of this work would have been possible without the Whisper model and ggerganov's work to enable it to run on CPUs. The content of transcripts are indexed and searchable via the site search (powered by Meilisearch - https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch), making it easy to find content on specific topics or that discuss specific of the Bible. Questions/comments are welcome!

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