New Tool Released

I've added a new tool to the Downloads page. It's called ABI-Subtitles. It transcribes audiobooks and generates subtitle files that the desktop and mobile apps use for reading along.

The app is a portable executable that runs pretty quickly. It provides the fastest transcription speeds that I've seen on my computer. It does require a modern graphics card if you want good transcription speeds. My computer with a 3090 averages 150x real-time. But when I tested it on my laptop and an old computer, I couldn't get speeds higher than 10x real-time.



It's not what anyone would call a pretty app, but it's getting the job done for me. For books around 8 hours long, it will generate subtitles in 5-10 minutes.

When you first launch the app, you'll need to go into settings and click on button to download the Parakeet model from Hugging Face (~2.4GB). The model downloads to the portable-data folder.

Since the speeds are the best that I've been able to manage on my computer, I also added an optional API server to the app so that I can use it in other apps that require transcription. I doubt many people will utilize that functionality, and it's off by default.

If you have any questions, suggestions, or feature requests, please reach out via the feedback form or the support email address.