I'm looking for something to transcribe .m4a recordings that I make for my genealogy efforts. Do you know of anything that can take a file as input?

Whisper.cpp will do it, and you can also use Parakeet v2, though I haven't tried running that one specifically.

If you're familiar with CLI you could use ffmpeg to extract audio then pipe the audio into whatever transcriber

I use ffmpeg a lot, but I'm curious if anyone can recommend a transcribe tool.

Another vote for handy. I am using with Parakeet and its pretty good.

Now its mostly about models getting better.

Thanks for the Handy info. (New to me)

Haven’t used Parakeet, but noting it too.

Commenting here so I come back to it.