Descript or Riverside?

Same published stack. whisper.cpp is the transcript. meetily if the job is meeting minutes. The hosted studio stays behind.

No. Gong is conversation intelligence and a deal board. This page is speech-to-text you run. You do not get Gong's coaching OS.

Minutes on a call are /replace/fireflies and /replace/otter — the meeting pipeline. This page is the studio/file transcript.

Why not the OpenAI Whisper API?

That is a hosted meter. whisper.cpp runs weights you download. Different bill.

Stacks / Meetings

Medium

whisper.cpp / meetily

Transcripts you run. whisper.cpp is MIT; meetily is a local meeting assistant — Descript, Riverside, and Gong without the hosted studio or deal-board SKU.

The problem

Descript is a hosted editor with transcription. Riverside is a hosted recorder plus transcript. Gong is conversation intelligence on sales calls. You wanted speech-to-text on hardware you control. whisper.cpp is MIT (ggml-org/whisper.cpp) — a C/C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper weights, not the OpenAI Whisper API. meetily is already the minutes tool on /replace/otter. Piper stays TTS (/replace/elevenlabs). This is not Descript's overdub studio, Riverside's every ISO-cabin SKU, or Gong's deal board and coaching OS. Fireflies.ai is the same minutes job as Otter — /replace/fireflies on the meeting pipeline.

Replaces

Descript / Riverside / Gong

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Estimated SaaS saved

$1,200

per year, small team, before lock-in

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Jitsi / meetily if this is a live room plus minutes, not a studio transcript

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Placeholder: whisper.cpp as a worker plus a volume for models; meetily if the job is meeting minutes. CPU works; GPU is faster. No one-click template in this repo yet — Start on Railway. Live rooms stay on /stacks/meeting-pipeline.

The stack

whisper.cpp
MIT local Whisper speech-to-text
Catalog entry →
meetily
Local meeting assistant if the job is minutes
Catalog entry →
Piper
GPL-3.0 local TTS if you also need speech out
Catalog entry →

Cost table

You stop paying	Typical / year	Self-host instead
Descript / Riverside / Gong (small team)	$1,200	whisper.cpp + meetily

Agent setup prompt

Replace Descript, Riverside, or Gong transcription with whisper.cpp (and meetily if the job is meeting minutes).

- Persist the model. Transcribe one file you actually have. Do not claim Descript Overdub, Riverside studios, or Gong deal boards.
- Live rooms stay on /stacks/meeting-pipeline. TTS is /stacks/piper-tts. Write AGENT_PROMPT.md.

Also as markdown: /stacks/whisper-transcribe.md

FAQ

Descript or Riverside?: Same published stack. whisper.cpp is the transcript. meetily if the job is meeting minutes. The hosted studio stays behind.
Is this Gong?: No. Gong is conversation intelligence and a deal board. This page is speech-to-text you run. You do not get Gong's coaching OS.
Fireflies or Otter?: Minutes on a call are /replace/fireflies and /replace/otter — the meeting pipeline. This page is the studio/file transcript.
Why not the OpenAI Whisper API?: That is a hosted meter. whisper.cpp runs weights you download. Different bill.