OpenAI - $0.006/minute.
Google - $0.024.
AWS - $0.024.
It's called Insanely Fast Whisper. And that's not hype. That's the benchmark.
> 150 minutes of audio.
> 98 seconds to transcribe.
> On your own machine.
> No API key.
> No cloud.
> No per-minute billing.
Here's what the numbers look like:
→ Whisper Large v3 + Flash Attention 2: 150 min of audio in 98 seconds
→ Distil Whisper + Flash Attention 2: 150 min in 78 seconds
→ Standard Whisper without optimization: 31 minutes for the same job
→ That's a 19x speedup. Same model. Same accuracy. Just faster.
Here's what it does:
→ One command to transcribe any audio file or URL
→ Speaker diarization — knows WHO said WHAT
→ Transcription AND translation to other languages
→ Runs on NVIDIA GPUs and Mac (Apple Silicon)
→ Flash Attention 2 for maximum speed
→ Clean JSON output with timestamps
→ Works with every Whisper model variant
Here's the wildest part:
Otter.ai charges $100/year. Rev charges $1.50/minute. Descript charges $24/month. Enterprise transcription contracts cost thousands.
Podcasters, journalists, researchers, lawyers, content creators — anyone still paying for transcription is lighting money on fire.
8.8K GitHub stars. 633 forks. MIT License.
100% Open Source.
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