Ask HN: How do you turn videos into searchable text without uploading them?

By flounderXM · 2026-10-09 · 2 points · 2 comments

I save a lot of podcasts, conference talks from YT. I want to transcribe them to grep some keywords. My assumption has been that the only realistic options are to a cloud service or running Whisper on a decent GPU, which I don't have. What's your setup? Can I get away with CPU?

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