Fair point. I was trying to focus on the broader topic rather than lead with the project, but I can see why that might come across as marketing-style framing.

That’s a fair point. I think convenience will continue to win for a lot of people.

What interests me is having the option. For some use cases, a cloud service is perfectly fine. For others, whether it’s privacy, compliance, reliability, or simply wanting control over your own infrastructure, self-hosted alternatives can be valuable even if they never become the default choice.

Also, the quality of open-source speech and translation tools has improved so much that they’re becoming realistic options for far more people than they were a few years ago.