Tutorials Transcribing Pipe's Video Recordings With Replicate and OpenAI's Speech Recognition Model (Whisper) This tutorial is part of a series of tutorials for integrating the Pipe Recording Platform with transcription services. We previously covered integrating with Amazon Transcribe and with ElevenLabs. We'll guide you
Tutorials Transcribing Pipe's Video Recordings With ElevenLabs' New Speech-to-Text Model (Scribe) In this tutorial, we will cover integrating the Pipe audio video and screen recording platform with ElevenLabs' new speech-to-text model, Scribe. The Pipe Platform allows you to add an audio, video or
Record Audio In HTML5 Record Lossless Audio in Safari Technology Preview With New ALAC and PCM Codec Support In Safari Technology Preview Release 214, Apple introduced support for ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) and PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) audio codecs in the MediaRecorder API. This enhancement lets developers record high-quality, lossless
Technology Screen Sharing Got Smarter (and More Private) on macOS: Understanding the System Private Window Picker Screen sharing and screen recording are part of our daily lives now, whether we are making work presentations, providing remote support, creating tutorials, or chatting with friends and family. Historically, macOS used a
Technology A Deep Dive into the Web Speech API In today's digital landscape, how we interact with technology continues to evolve beyond traditional keyboard and mouse inputs. Voice-based interactions have become increasingly important, offering more natural, accessible, and efficient ways
Technology Understanding Audio Frequency Analysis in JavaScript: A Guide to Using AnalyserNode and getByteFrequencyData One of the most powerful tools available for working with audio in JavaScript is the ability to analyze audio frequency data in real-time. This allows developers to create visualizers, detect specific frequencies, or
Technology Turning on the new Camera and Microphone Selector & Preview in Chrome Starting with Chrome 123 there's a new feature that allows you to 1. select the desired camera 2. select the desired microphone 3. preview the selected camera video stream 4. test
Technology Dealing With Huge MediaRecorder Chunks A more technical blog post. We've been monitoring the size of the chunks made available through MediaRecorder's ondataavailable function for a while. For example, with a timeslice of 200ms,
Tutorials Integrating Pipe With Amazon Transcribe This step-by-step tutorial will teach you how to integrate Pipe with Amazon Transcribe. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that allows developers to add speech-to-text capability to their applications. Using
Technology Amazon S3 Object URLs When we push a file to your Amazon S3 bucket, Amazon will generate a (private) https link (named Object URL) for the file. The link is available in the AWS Management Console for
Product Updates Simple Region Switching Guide: EU1 to EU2 This is a blog post version of a Google docs we shared with our clients when we introduced the EU2 region. In September of 2021 we rolled out a new files processing region
Technology Using Gearman in 2022 We're using Gearman to process tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of recordings per day. This is the summary of work & research done by all 3 engineers at Pipe:
Product Updates A Proper Sign In With Google Implementation I believe we're at the 3rd iteration of our Sign In With Google mechanism. I think this time, we finally got it right. It started as a privacy related task. We
Product Updates Beta Support for Safari on macOS Safari took us on a wild ride this past year. After Flash support was removed in Safari 14, we were left with no way record video in Safari. The MediaStream Recording API (needed
Tutorials Integrating Pipe Webhooks with AWS Lambda Webhooks are a powerful way of integrating between different software services. Thanks to the recent Pipe webhook update, which allows you to send webhooks with content-type application/json, you can integrate them with
Technology Typical Video Bitrates We were recently asked about video bitrates and file sizes: ...are there typical file sizes for low, medium and high quality of, say, 1 minute of video responses? My immediate answer was that
Technology The Flash Recording Client Will Be Removed Starting with February 1st 2021 12th of January Update: According to Adobe's recently updated Flash EOL page to help secure users’ systems, Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021.
Product Updates Support for Safari 14 Yesterday, in a surprise move, Apple silently released desktop Safari 14 ahead of the macOS Big Sur release. Unfortunately, desktop Safari 14 removes Flash Player while at the same time it does not
Technology Camera and Microphone Access In Cross Origin Iframes With getUserMedia & Feature Policy If you’re trying to access the camera and microphone with getUserMedia() in a cross origin iframe on a recent version of Chrome, by default it will fail. We’ve encountered this situation
Screen Recording Chrome Tutorial: Recording The Screen With Both Microphone Audio AND System Sounds A few years back, getUserMedia brought us direct access to the camera and microphone. This year, getDisplayMedia brought us standards-compliant screen capture in Chrome 72+ and Firefox 66+. Starting with Chrome 74 -
Technology Camera and Microphone Access in macOS Mojave Previous macOS versions allowed you to control what apps can access your location, contacts, photos, calendar and reminders. macOS Mojave adds the ability to control what apps can access your camera and microphone.
Technology getUserMedia() Camera & Microphone Initialization Times After using the Permissions API to accurately measure how users interact with the camera & microhone permissions dialog we realised we could measure more. The Permissions API data allows us to filter those
Technology Using the Permissions API to Detect How Often Users Allow or Deny Camera Access 9 May update: we've updated the TTA & Permission API numbers to reflect the same 100k getUserMedia() calls dataset. The updated numbers result in the same conclusions. While building our new
Product Updates Screen Recording In Chrome and Firefox Without Extensions We've first introduced the screen recording functionality in Pipe more than a year ago. It only worked in Chrome and it required a self published Chrome extension for the website where
Technology Standards Compliant Screen Capture in Chrome 72 Chrome 72 was rolled out yesterday with support for navigator.MediaDevices.getDisplayMedia() turned ON by default. You’re now able to capture and record/broadcast the screen of a user, a running app
