You can. You're just paying for compute and having it managed. Here's price estimates for 1,000 hours of audio on GCP: https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/how-to-ru

You can. You're just paying for compute and having it managed. Here's price estimates for 1,000 hours of audio on GCP: https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/how-to-run-openais-whisper-speech-recognition-model/#cost-to-run-whisper https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/how-to-run-openais-whisper-s... For reference, from OpenAI it would be $360 and it's the large-v2 model.