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.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.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.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.I'm hoping someone will fork this and teach it to run whisper locally.[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]