Yea, I'm running an old Intel i7 cpu and recently got a NVDIA1060 type GPU. It has 6gb but it was in the price range what I was willing to pay. I haven't really timed it but it probably takes ~30+ mins for a 2 hour movie. Most of my time is then spent editing the Whisper crap...although I shouldn't bad mouth Whisper (in any form) because it's the best we have for now.I have not used Collab. Within SE there are options to use CPP or Faster Whisper etc. I found Faster Whisper to be faster than CPP. For me what speeded up the transcription was getting a good GPU after I installed RTX3060 with 12gb it goes much faster but that's an expensive upgrade. Some people said 8gb is enough. But you need a card that uses CUDA. Also recently I discovered a parameter for Faster Whisper called -batched which became available from r239.1, it does batched inference and reduced the subtitle creation by 50%. Of course that may introduce more hallucinations.








