Google Colab can run Whisper, but it can most likely also run on an old, cheap laptop that you have.
I don’t know who has to hear this but
that’s a phrase, not a quote.
I’ll likely change to Infinity for Everything. Infinity is awesome and is still working for free for now.
Edit: using Infinity for Lemmy
Fun fact: you can’t illegally download all of Wikipedia, because you can only do it legally. The English Wikipedia is less than 100 GB with images and half that without images. You can also download the top 50,000 article, which with images, are less than 7 GB.
See @[email protected] (I’m not sure how well-supported cross-galaxy mentions are here or if they even work)
edit: see Kiwix.org
The ChatGPT app uses the speech-to-text model Whisper, and it’s always spot on in English. Whisper is open source. I don’t understand why it’s not widespread, but hopefully it will be or similarly capable software will be soon.