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		powera on Sept 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI My first take: it is slow. The "base" model (supposedly 16x faster than the large one) takes more than the audiofile playback time on my machine to do transcriptions.

fitznd on Sept 22, 2022 [–]

I'm seeing even worse. On my M1 Max 2021 macbook pro, I tried transcribing a 30 minute video file and left it on overnight and it was only half way through. I feel like something could be wrong with my setup but I'm only using the defaults.

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