A tutorial on deploying OpenAI Whisper large-v2 for speech transcription using Hugging Face Inference Endpoints. Covers creating a managed endpoint, integrating it into applications via Python and JavaScript, and a cost-performance comparison against Amazon Transcribe and Google Cloud Speech-to-text. Key finding: batch inference with Hugging Face can save up to 96% compared to managed cloud ASR services, while latency is on par or better.
