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OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio

by @georgemandis george.mand.is published 2025-06-249 min read

I discovered a fun and strangely obvious trick for summarizing videos faster and reducing costs: just speed them up. Cheaper, faster OpenAI transcriptions with a little ffmpeg trick.

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