Writeout.ai – Transcribe and translate any audio files
I don't understand why this doesn't actually do the transcription / translation locally. Sending the data to openAI for paid conversion makes no sense. Whisper can be legally run on your computer, for free.<p>Running it locally way more sense for an open source project, because why would you pay and be dependent upon a 3rd party if you don't have to be.<p>It also makes way more sense for a service because then _you_ don't have to give all your money to openAI and skim off of what's left.<p>This is just.... bewildering. I really wanted to use it, but I'm not going to pay openAI to transcribe podcasts for me when i can literally use the exact same language model and do it locally with free open source code.<p>I'm hoping someone will fork this and teach it to run whisper locally.<p>[edit: getting the exact right version of python and PyTorch and dependencies to make whisper run was a pain but now i've got it set up and it's a trivial command to transcribe every mp3 i feel like transcribing]