You have to build the transcriptions feature as good as Google and Zoom but we don't have a similar budget". That was a challenge we faced and solved with hundreds of coffee cups and incredible hair loss, our solution is cost-effective, open-source, and fits within our Go stack. Whisper.cpp is a lightweight implementation of Open AI’s Whisper speech-to-text model, that comes with Go bindings. This solution is leveraged by a lot of emerging startups and existing companies.