@internetarchive @textfiles I can confirm that Whisper is useful for generating transcripts of podcasts that are 80% “good enough” for local text searching with non-LLM #FLOSS tools such as Recoll https://www.recoll.org/ https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/recoll #search

LLM audio transcription is like a bulldozer tunneling a straight line into an otherwise inaccessible jungle; sure, stuff gets mangled, but it gives you quick access to biomes too costly to survey on foot.