here's a few options cited in this thread: whisper based options: whisper.cpp works well on Mac and runs locally, though fine-tuning vocabulary is desired no

here's a few options cited in this thread: whisper based options: whisper.cpp works well on Mac and runs locally, though fine-tuning vocabulary is desired noScribe is a good FOSS option MacWhisper is a highly effective macOS desktop app that processes local files and remote URLs, exporting to various formats whisperfile is suitable for batch transcription and can run on an M4 mini with an HTTP API carelesswhisper.app is a local, whisper.cpp wrapper that offers fast transcription for longer audio, noise profiling, and one-time payment, working well on M1 Faster-Whisper-XXL standalone on Windows offers fantastic accuracy due to vocal extraction preprocessing VoiceInk is an open-source solution that runs a small local model with optional remote/local LLM enhancements Vibe is an open-source alternative to SuperWhisper Cloud options: OpenAI speech-to-text and AssemblyAI are considered high quality, with AssemblyAI being cheap and having robust SDK support TurboScribe offers a generous free tier for web-based transcription Hosting OpenAI Whisper large v3 on Modal.com provides a fast, cheap solution with no rate limits AssemblyAI's Universal ASR has impressive WER, future textual prompting, and PII redaction capabilities borgcloud.org offers competitive pricing and fast real-time transcription GCP's Chirp & chirp2 are used for large-scale meeting minute transcription Microsoft Word 365 (online) Transcribe is a surprisingly effective out-of-the-box solution for English, offering labeled speakers and timestamps Uploading audio to YouTube can be a 'cheap hack' for transcription Full summary here: https://extraakt.com/extraakts/transcription-tools-and-workflows;topicId=T-1_2 https://extraakt.com/extraakts/transcription-tools-and-workf...