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Optimizing OpenAI Transcriptions with Audio Speed-Up

By

georgemandis

11mo ago· 10 min readen

Summary

To make OpenAI transcriptions faster and cheaper, the article suggests speeding up audio using tools like ffmpeg. This simple trick can reduce costs and waiting time with minimal impact on transcription quality.

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Run your audio through ffmpeg at 2x or 3x before transcribing it.
You’ll spend fewer tokens and less time waiting with almost no drop in transcription quality.
Here’s a script combining of all my favorite little toys and tricks to get the job.
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I discovered a fun and strangely obvious trick for summarizing videos faster and reducing costs: just speed them up. Cheaper, faster OpenAI transcriptions with a little ffmpeg trick.

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