[P] Whisper Large Benchmark: 137 DAYS of Audio Transcribed in 15 Hours for Just $117 ($0.00059/min)

We recently benchmarked whisper-large-v2 against the substantial [**English CommonVoice dataset**](https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasets) on a distributed cloud (SaladCloud) with consumer GPUs.

**The Result: Transcribed 137 days of audio in 15 hrs for just $117.**

Traditionally, utilizing a managed service like AWS Transcribe would set you back about **$10,500** for transcribing the entirety of the English CommonVoice dataset.

Using a custom model? That’s an even steeper **$13,134**.

In contrast, our approach using Whisper on a distributed cloud cost just **$117**, achieving the same result. …

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