Why not use Whisper directly? All that seems to be happening is gladia.io is running 120 concurrent calls to openAI using 120 30s chunks of an hour long audio.

Why not use Whisper directly? All that seems to be happening is gladia.io is running 120 concurrent calls to openAI using 120 30s chunks of an hour long audio. So yeah, you do get a speedup! Chop audio and stitch transcripts. But OP is vaguely (and briefly) promising a breakthrough of some sorts.