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I thought local Whisper transcription would make call notes basically free, then a 13-minute file turned cleanup into the whole job

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I knew I was in trouble when the transcript finished fast and still wasn’t usable. I was running faster-whisper locally on a meeting recording, watching my GPU rip through the audio, and thinking I’d found the obvious win: no per-minute speech API bill no hosted transcription meter running in the b…

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  1. 2026-09-05 05:53 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    I thought local Whisper transcription would make call notes basically free, then a 13-minute file turned cleanup into the whole job

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