alt Hacker News> The "local is too slow" argument doesn't hold up anymore if you have any GPU at all.
By "any GPU" you mean a physical, dedicated GPU card, right?
That's not a small requirement, especially on Macs.
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grosswait • yesterday at 12:42 PM
No. Give it a try I think you’ll be surprised
My M1 16GB Mini and M2 16GB Air both deliver insane local transcription performance without eating up much memory - I think the M line + Parakeet delivers insane local performance and you get privacy for free