Open-Source Whisper Transcribes 2.5-Hour Audio in 98 Seconds
nikola_mr64990 · x · 2026-07-05
Based on OpenAI Whisper, someone built a fully open-source solution that transcribes 2.5 hours of audio in 98 seconds, significantly boosting speech transcription inference speed and running entirely locally.
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