This local voice-to-text app replaced every paid service for me

I was recently generating a bunch of mind maps using AI. The problem was that many of the insights I wanted had to be extracted from hour-long video lectures, which needed to be transcribed first for my mind map generation workflow to work. So I went ahead and looked for online services like Otter.ai to transcribe my videos. But after seeing their subscription prices, I wasn’t exactly excited to pay $18 a month, especially since I only needed basic transcriptions.