Local Whisper vs. Cloud Dictation: Privacy, Latency and Accuracy Tradeoffs (Plus a Private Setup)

"Just run Whisper locally" is good advice that skips a lot of detail. Local speech-to-text is genuinely useful, but it is not automatically faster, more accurate, or even fully private, depending on what else sits in your pipeline. This post breaks the decision into three questions (what leaves the machine, where latency comes from, and how... Weiterlesen: Local Whisper vs. Cloud Dictation: Privacy, Latency and Accuracy Trad…