Comment by tinykerneldev

You can get pretty far even using the CPU. Just did a bit of testing with a 20-minute Family Guy episode. Took 14 minutes using Whisper Small (500 MB model) on an older Intel i5-9600T CPU. Obviously, that might be fine for the occasional transcription and a total show-stopper for high volume transcription. For comparison the same video took just two minutes using Whisper Large v3 Turbo on my 4080 (tested in TrueScribe on Linux).