[genewitch]

before i even bother opening that github: does it work on windows? so far, all of the whisper "clones" run poorly, if at all, on windows. I do have a 3060 and a 1070ti i could use just for whisper on linux, but i have this 3090 on my windows desktop that works "fine" for whisper, TTS, SD, LLM.

Whisper on windows, the openai-whisper, doesn't have these q8_0 models, it has like 8 models, and i always get an error about triton cores (something about timeptamping i guess), which windows doesn't have. I've transcribed >1000 hours of audio with this setup, so i'm used to the workflow.

[generalizations]

If you want to stay near the bleeding edge with this stuff, you probably want to be on some kind of linux (or lacking that, Mac). Windows is where stuff just trickles down to eventually.

[genewitch]

you're not wrong; i really should try just running linux and seeing how good the steam gaming layer is these days. And if SDR# runs on linux under wine or whatever.