What kind of hardware do you have that makes it feasible to process thousands of hours of podcasts? I want to do the same but I’ve heard that Whisper requires some serious GPU might for decent accuracy (Linux Unplugged podcast specifically).
Yep, it takes a bit of GPU RAM. I'm using 3 machines with NVidia 3080 or better. I let them go for a few weeks over the winter break when I was mostly disconnected from the tech world. The workers prioritized podcasts I'm personally likely to want to search, and got through almost a third of my archive.
Now it's down to 1 or 2 machines depending on what's going on, so it'll take much longer to finish up, but I'm in no rush.
