Whisper & Faster-Whisper: Self-Hosted Speech-to-Text That Actually Works
OpenAI Whisper is genuinely impressive speech-to-text — and you can run it entirely on your own hardware. Add Faster-Whisper into the mix and suddenly you've got transcription that's 4x quicker, uses less VRAM, and doesn't phone home to anyone. Here's how to set it all up without losing your mind.