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[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

How ancient is ancient? TTS and STT are much lighter than llm. (eg: Whisper, Piper, Kokoro, Coqui etc)....you might have more capability than you think, especially if you're doing batch processing like that.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

a haswell xeon e5-1650 machine, i remember running llama 7b in llama.cpp in like 2023 and it was quite sluggish. guess i should try whisper at some point..

[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ha. You were doing inference on CPU on a haswell era. Been there, done that.

OTOH...whisper.cpp is heavily optimised for it.

Plus, you're doing batch transcription, not real-time, so slow doesn't actually matter.

Fire Whisper small or medium overnight and wake up to searchable text.

PS: if you want a good fast little llm, something like Qwen 3.6 2B will work well on the Xeon.