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whisper alternatives lately: setup advice - visionforge - 10-17-2026
Posting this in case it saves someone else a little time.
I'm helping a small team set up a local workflow. We don't need a giant stack, but we do care about speculative decoding.
Would rather learn from your scars than collect my own all at once.
Re: whisper alternatives lately: setup advice - latentpeak22 - 10-17-2026
Thanks, that helps. That matches what I saw on dual 3090.
Re: whisper alternatives lately: setup advice - signalpeak - 10-18-2026
That matches what I was seeing. I ended up in about the same place using llama.cpp. I got better results once I stopped chasing one metric and just looked at whether the workflow felt usable.
If you post your exact settings, people here can probably narrow it down pretty fast.
Re: whisper alternatives lately: setup advice - bytegarden73 - 10-18-2026
What exact setup are you running? Do you see the same thing with a smaller batch or shorter prompt?
Re: whisper alternatives lately: setup advice - vramarch - 10-18-2026
What exact setup are you running? Are you testing this on dual 3090 or something else?
Re: whisper alternatives lately: setup advice - batchwire - 10-18-2026
What worked for me was pretty simple. Start by verifying the driver/runtime combo, then test with a smaller prompt, then look at batch size.
Re: whisper alternatives lately: setup advice - amberpatch25 - 10-18-2026
I hit almost the same issue last night.
Re: whisper alternatives lately: setup advice - quiethouse - 10-19-2026
Quote:following this because I'm in the same boat.
I think the bottleneck is somewhere else. I wouldn't optimize around that first. On my side the bigger swing came from the runtime and not the model. Worth testing the simpler explanation before adopting the more interesting one.
Re: whisper alternatives lately: setup advice - kernelpeak - 10-19-2026
Appreciate the detail. That matches what I saw on 5090.
Re: whisper alternatives lately: setup advice - vramarch - 10-19-2026
I'd approach it in a boring order. If you're on Ollama, I'd confirm the version first and then reduce variables until the behavior is obvious. Once you know the plain path works, then add the faster path back in piece by piece.