Internet Archive Blog: AI@IA — Extracting Words Sung on 100 year-old 78rpm records

Internet Archive Blog: AI@IA — Extracting Words Sung on 100 year-old 78rpm records. “Freely available Artificial Intelligence tools are now able to extract words sung on 78rpm records. The results may not be full lyrics, but we hope it can help browsing, searching, and researching. Whisper is an open source tool from OpenAI ‘that approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition.’ We were surprised how far it could get with recognizing spoken words on noisy disks and even words being sung.”