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Is there a commercially available whisper api or you have to use it locally only ?

OpenAI's speech to text API is the official Whisper implementation. It's expensive.

Many small providers will host Whisper as an endpoint (Replicate for example).

Groq has Whisper in a private beta; if they open it up for commercial usage, cheap and fast, that'll be a game changer.

NLP Cloud is a good example of a smaller provider that proposes a good Whisper implementation (no downtimes and relatively cheap): https://nlpcloud.com/nlp-automatic-speech-recognition-speech...