Picked the open source speech model over the $60 a year API, saved my podcast 4 hours a week

Reese Hayes · 2026-10-03T20:50:02.592351+00:00

Went with Whisper running on my old gaming PC instead of paying for cloud transcription, and after 3 weeks of transcribing 12 episodes it's gotten maybe 2 words wrong total, has anyone else ditched a paid API for a local model and actually stuck with it?

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