Local models, translation and the tools that keep jobs moving.
Strata gave me another reason to try the V100 attached to my second-hand laptop. Getting it installed, finding an old background program and testing my everyday work made the old setup worth keeping.
A second-hand laptop and an external V100 let me try local transcription, translation and document work. As the tools multiplied, I needed a monitor, a queue and some say in what ran next.
I wanted recordings to stay on my computer: drag in a file, separate speakers, edit names and export to Word. Then a five-minute gap in a long recording changed what I expected from “complete.”
Automatic detection should save a repeated choice while leaving the translation direction in my hands.
Timing the stages separately showed where most of the wait was going.
The tool checking whether LM Studio was running was also starting it.
Once several tools shared the local model, I wanted control over which job came next.
The laptop, enclosure and V100 came in stages. Trying the equipment I had helped me decide what to spend on next.
Listening to the recording again showed that the blank stretches contained speech the software had failed to transcribe.
