Powerful ASR + diarization + speculative decoding with Hugging Face Inference Endpoints

speculative decoding with hf inference endpoints is cool, but it's just clever optimization masking slower underlying hardware. it speeds things up, sure, but it doesn't fix the latency issues or the cost overruns when you're running high-throughput, real-time transcription. for serious ASR and diarization, you still need dedicated GPU infrastructure, not just clever prompting on a shared endpoint.

we're using those endpoints for proof-of-concept work, but moving to production means dealing with throughput limits and chunking strategies that bite hard. it's a nice demo, but not a scalable solution for enterprise audio processing.