First of all: congratulations!!!
Secondly, just curious: any insiders here?
What changed? I see the infrastructure has been upgraded, this seems like a big release, etc. I guess there was a recent influx of contributors? A corporate donation? Something else?
You missed out on the thread!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886647 ("FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support (ffmpeg.org)"—9 days ago, 331 comments)
in my experience whisper (at least on my 3070 Ti) is not capable of high quality real-time transcription. A few seconds per second of audio, maybe.
Not an insider, but I noticed that there is now a filter for using Whisper (C++) for audio transcription [1]. It looks like you provide the path to a model file [2].
[1]: https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp
[2]: https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/13ce36fef98a...