Newly built live captioner validated at venue.
- Qwen Audio 3.1 ASR Flash Streaming's ASR result is not usable on its own.
- The clutch was building a REST API for Claude to read and refine the transcript. It also occasionally pulls the livestream video frame for better fixes.
- Prompted in public from scratch (see quoted commit for the full transcript).
I built a live captioning system for local technical talks back in 2024. Back then it requires putting multiple models together so it works well enough with Thai language + tech jargons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXMS212fZSA
The models have improved much since then, so…
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