GPUs are often utilized for machine learning processing tasks. That is, besides their original intended use of creating realistic representations of the real world on our games consoles and computers. GPUs are expensive and instead of buying one outright, you can buy GPU compute time from a cloud service provider. For running Whisper transcriptions, there is another option. The whisper.cpp project offers a C++ optimized version of Whisper which can run on a regular CPU (the main processor in your computer). We have seen that if you are already familiar with using the Terminal, it is not too difficult to run the transcription on your local machine. That is, without having to buy a GPU or pay to use GPU compute time with a cloud provider.