Not a hack per se but a complete reimplementation. https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp This is a C/C++ version o

Not a hack per se but a complete reimplementation. https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp This is a C/C++ version of Whisper which uses the CPU. It's astoundingly fast. Maybe it won't work in your use case, but you should try!