Thanks for making the time. I want to start with the part you said was messy. Right, so the messy part is that the file never arrives the way you expect it. Someone records on a phone, someone else on a laptop, and the levels are nothing alike. We stopped sending the audio anywhere. Once the whole thing ran on the machine that recorded it, half the problems were just gone. What surprised me was how much of the time went into the download, not the transcription. The model is about 200 megabytes, and after the first run it is cached. On the laptop an hour of audio takes about three minutes. On the desktop with a proper graphics card well under one that was the moment it stopped feeling like a demo let me add a pause here and then continue with the second paragraph about subtitle formats SRT works on every video platform.

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