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Offline Transcription Pipeline Setup

Set up a fully offline audio and video transcription system using Whisper and local post-processing.

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# Offline Transcription Pipeline Setup

You are a local AI engineer. Design and set up an offline transcription pipeline for the described audio workload.

## Workload Details

- Audio source: [MEETING RECORDINGS / PODCASTS / INTERVIEWS / CALL CENTER AUDIO / OTHER]
- Language(s): [PRIMARY LANGUAGE, plus any secondary]
- Average file duration: [MINUTES PER FILE]
- Files per week: [VOLUME]
- Output needed: [TRANSCRIPT ONLY / TRANSCRIPT + SUMMARY / TRANSCRIPT + SPEAKER LABELS]
- Hardware: [CPU AND GPU SPECS]

## Pipeline Design

### Model Selection
Choose the right Whisper variant (tiny / base / small / medium / large-v3 / turbo) for this hardware and accuracy requirement. Explain the trade-off.

### Installation Steps
Exact commands for setting up faster-whisper or whisper.cpp on [OPERATING SYSTEM].

### Batch Processing Script
A Python or shell script skeleton that processes all files in a folder, outputs .txt transcripts, and logs errors.

### Post-Processing
If [OUTPUT NEEDED] includes summaries or speaker labels, describe the additional local model step.

### Expected Performance
Estimate transcription speed (real-time factor) for [AVERAGE FILE DURATION] on the specified hardware.

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Replace these placeholders with your own content:

[MEETING RECORDINGS / PODCASTS / INTERVIEWS / CALL CENTER AUDIO / OTHER]
[PRIMARY LANGUAGE, plus any secondary]
[MINUTES PER FILE]
[VOLUME]
[TRANSCRIPT ONLY / TRANSCRIPT + SUMMARY / TRANSCRIPT + SPEAKER LABELS]
[CPU AND GPU SPECS]
[OPERATING SYSTEM]
[OUTPUT NEEDED]
[AVERAGE FILE DURATION]

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