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Off Grid AI Desktop Runs Whisper Voice Transcription Locally
OpenAI's Whisper model, trained on 680,000 hours of audio, can run on a laptop CPU in real time. Off Grid AI Desktop is a free, open-source app that uses Whisper for offline dictation on Mac or PC. It requires 8 GB RAM and about 2 GB disk space, with no account or internet needed.
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The app highlights a growing trend: powerful AI models that can run locally, challenging the cloud-first approach of most transcription services.
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