OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio

I wonder how much time and battery transcoding/uploading/downloading over coffeeshop wifi would realy save vs just running it locally through optimized Whisper.

I had this same thought and won't pretend my fear was rational, haha.

One thing that I thought was fairly clear in my write-up but feels a little lost in the comments: I didn't just try this with whisper. I tried it with their newer gpt-4o-transcription model, which seems considerably faster. There's no way to run that one locally.