June 24th, 2025 • ~2,000 words • 9 minute readWant to make OpenAI transcriptions faster and cheaper? Just speed up your audio.I mean that very literally. Run your audio through ffmpeg at 2x or 3x before transcribing it. You’ll spend fewer tokens and less time waiting with almost no drop in transcription quality.That’s it!Here’s a script combining of all my favorite little toys and tricks to get the job. You’ll need yt-dlp, ffmpeg and llm installed.# Extract the audio from the video yt-dlp -f 'be...