So wait… is whisper transcription really all that slow locally on a M3 Macbook? It’s been a while since I used whispercpp, but I seem to remember it taking maybe 20 minutes on a comparatively slowpoke (and powerhungry) i5 12600k for maybe 40 minutes of audio; it might take less time on a faster m chip (maybe I’m imagining mobile apple silicon to be more performant than even desktop intel cpus), even less if there support built in for the built in gpu cores and other ai optimized silicon?

Did I miss that the task was time sensitive?