I Stopped Paying for Subtitle Services After Running Whisper in a Browser Tab

Last Tuesday I needed subtitles for a 12-minute product demo. The video was in English, the audience was international, and the deadline was two hours away. My first instinct was the usual cloud suspects. Rev quoted me $1.50 per minute with a 24-hour turnaround. Descript wanted a subscription. Happy Scribe's free tier maxed out at one minute. Even YouTube's auto-captions required uploading, waiting for processing, then manually downloading the .srt file from Studio; a workflow designed for YouTu