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Step-by-step guide to running OpenAI's Whisper locally for transcription — three approaches from command-line to full web UI, all free and completely private.
Local TTS and STT by VRAM tier: Parakeet, Canary, MOSS-Transcribe-Diarize, Step-Audio-EditX, Fish Audio S2 Pro and Kokoro, and the licence each ships.
Set up faster-whisper on your own machine for private, free transcription. No subscriptions, no cloud uploads, no data training.
Complete guide to running Whisper locally for free, private speech-to-text that replaces Otter.ai, Rev, and cloud transcription APIs
