Running Whisper in the browser: what broke and how I fixed it
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I run a small site of free browser tools, and the one people use most is a transcriber: you drop in an audio or video file and get text or SRT/VTT subtitles back. By default nothing is uploaded. OpenAI's Whisper runs on your own device through transformers.js , and ffmpeg.wasm pulls the audio out o…
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- 2026-10-25 13:40 · DEV Community — AI
Running Whisper in the browser: what broke and how I fixed it