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OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio

(george.mand.is)
669 points georgemandis | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 13:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.277s | source
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rob ◴[25 Jun 25 16:20 UTC] No.44379019[source]▶
For anybody trying to do this in bulk, instead of using OpenAI's whisper via their API, you can also use Groq [0] which is much cheaper:

[0] https://groq.com/pricing/

Groq is ~$0.02/hr with distil-large-v3, or ~$0.04/hr with whisper-large-v3-turbo. I believe OpenAI comes out to like ~$0.36/hr.

We do this internally with our tool that automatically transcribes local government council meetings right when they get uploaded to YouTube. It uses Groq by default, but I also added support for Replicate and Deepgram as backups because sometimes Groq errors out.

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1. abidlabs ◴[25 Jun 25 21:24 UTC] No.44381963[source]▶
You could use Hugging Face's Inference API (which supports all of these API providers) directly making it easier to switch between them, e.g. look at the panel on the right on: https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3