This is a cool project. I’ve been very happy with whisper as an alternative to otter; it works better and solves real problems for me.

I feel compelled to point out whisper.cpp. It may be cheaper for the author but is relevant for others.

I was running whisper on a gtx 1070 to get decent performance; it was terribly slow on M1 Mac. Whisper.cpp has comparable performance to the 1070 while running on M1 CPU. It is easy to build and run and well documented.

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

I hope this doesn’t come off the wrong way, I love this project and I’m glad to see the technology democratized. Easily accessible high-quality transcription will be a game changer for many people and organizations.