Is there any chance you could expose a pathway to use a local instance of Whisper?
I ask primarily because OpenAI completely open-sourced Whisper in September 2022[0]. It seems odd to me to default to or encourage the usage of a paid service for something that appears to be available for free under MIT license including models[1].
My understanding is that the only reason OpenAI even setup the paid API is because it "can also be hard to run [sic]". Personally, I'm skeptical. I"m not knocking them for it but I could see how this is just brand capitalization.
My understanding is that the only reason OpenAI even setup the paid API is because it "can also be hard to run [sic]". Personally, I'm skeptical. I"m not knocking them for it but I could see how this is just brand capitalization.
[0]: https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis...
[1]: https://github.com/openai/whisper