M4 Mac mini handles 110-150 city meetings a day
Open Publica collects local city meetings, turns the audio into text, summarizes the content, and archives it. Most of the processing now runs on a . The machine has a 10-core chip and 24 GB of memory, and it processes about 110 to 150 meetings per day.
A laptop is sometimes added to the worker pool when extra processing power is available. The processing system has been moved to a setup, which helps make repeated, failed, or distributed jobs easier to handle safely. The is mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3, chosen because it currently gives a good return for the workload.
A free is now available so an AI chatbot can ask about recent meetings, search the data set, and fetch full transcripts. The API is free, requires no login, and needs better later.
Key points
- A processes about 110 to 150 city meetings per day.
- The Mac mini has a 10-core chip and 24 GB of memory.
- A laptop can be added to the worker pool for extra capacity.
- A setup helps with safer repeatable and distributed processing.
- The free lets chatbots search meetings and fetch full transcripts.