diff --git a/.github/actions/build-plugin/action.yaml b/.github/actions/build-plugin/action.yaml
index ac5950d..75c8af7 100644
--- a/.github/actions/build-plugin/action.yaml
+++ b/.github/actions/build-plugin/action.yaml
@@ -82,7 +82,6 @@ runs:
         $BuildArgs = @{
           Target = '${{ inputs.target }}'
           Configuration = '${{ inputs.config }}'
-          Cublas = '${{ inputs.cublas }}'
         }
 
         .github/scripts/Build-Windows.ps1 @BuildArgs
diff --git a/.github/scripts/Build-Windows.ps1 b/.github/scripts/Build-Windows.ps1
index 875ea0a..2d4c4ca 100644
--- a/.github/scripts/Build-Windows.ps1
+++ b/.github/scripts/Build-Windows.ps1
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ param(
     [string] $Target = 'x64',
     [ValidateSet('Debug', 'RelWithDebInfo', 'Release', 'MinSizeRel')]
     [string] $Configuration = 'RelWithDebInfo',
-    [ValidateSet('cpu', '12.2.0', '11.8.0')]
-    [string] $Cublas = 'cpu',
     [switch] $SkipAll,
     [switch] $SkipBuild,
     [switch] $SkipDeps,
@@ -79,13 +77,6 @@ function Build {
             '--preset', $Preset
         )
 
-        if ( $Cublas -ne 'cpu' ) {
-            $CmakeArgs += @(
-                '-DLOCALVOCAL_WITH_CUDA=ON',
-                "-DCUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR=$Env:CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR"
-            )
-        }
-
         $CmakeBuildArgs += @(
             '--build'
             '--preset', $Preset
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-project.yaml b/.github/workflows/build-project.yaml
index d554e05..cdb1a33 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-project.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-project.yaml
@@ -237,20 +237,6 @@ jobs:
           submodules: recursive
           fetch-depth: 0
 
-      - name: Install CUDA Toolkit
-        if: ${{ matrix.cublas != 'cpu' }}
-        id: cuda-toolkit
-        uses: Jimver/cuda-toolkit@v0.2.11
-        with:
-          cuda: '${{ matrix.cublas }}'
-
-      - name: Set CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR if CUDA is installed
-        if: ${{ matrix.cublas != 'cpu' }}
-        run: |
-          ls "$env:CUDA_PATH\bin"
-          ls -d 2 "$env:CUDA_PATH\lib"
-          "CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR=$env:CUDA_PATH" >> $env:GITHUB_ENV
-
       - name: Set Up Environment 🔧
         id: setup
         run: |
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c6156a..0000000
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "vendor/curl"]
-	path = vendor/curl
-	url = https://github.com/curl/curl.git
diff --git a/cmake/BuildWhispercpp.cmake b/cmake/BuildWhispercpp.cmake
index 354c09e..e54a75b 100644
--- a/cmake/BuildWhispercpp.cmake
+++ b/cmake/BuildWhispercpp.cmake
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 include(ExternalProject)
-
-set(CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES_ "arm64$<SEMICOLON>x86_64")
-
-set(Whispercpp_Build_GIT_TAG "f22d27a385d34b1e544031efe8aa2e3d73922791")
+include(FetchContent)
 
 if(${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} STREQUAL Release OR ${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} STREQUAL RelWithDebInfo)
   set(Whispercpp_BUILD_TYPE Release)
@@ -10,85 +7,103 @@ else()
   set(Whispercpp_BUILD_TYPE Debug)
 endif()
 
-if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
-  # On linux add the `-fPIC` flag to the compiler
-  set(WHISPER_EXTRA_CXX_FLAGS "-fPIC")
-  set(WHISPER_ADDITIONAL_CMAKE_ARGS -DWHISPER_BLAS=OFF -DWHISPER_CUBLAS=OFF -DWHISPER_OPENBLAS=OFF -DWHISPER_NO_AVX=ON
-                                    -DWHISPER_NO_AVX2=ON)
-endif()
 if(APPLE)
   # check the "MACOS_ARCH" env var to figure out if this is x86 or arm64
   if(NOT DEFINED ENV{MACOS_ARCH})
-    message(FATAL_ERROR "The MACOS_ARCH environment variable is not set. Please set it to either `x86` or `arm64`")
+    message(FATAL_ERROR "The MACOS_ARCH environment variable is not set. Please set it to either `x86_64` or `arm64`")
   endif(NOT DEFINED ENV{MACOS_ARCH})
-  set(CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES_ "$ENV{MACOS_ARCH}")
+
+  set(WHISPER_CPP_URL
+      "https://github.com/occ-ai/occ-ai-dep-whispercpp/releases/download/0.0.1/whispercpp-macos-$ENV{MACOS_ARCH}-0.0.1.tar.gz"
+  )
   if($ENV{MACOS_ARCH} STREQUAL "x86_64")
-    set(WHISPER_ADDITIONAL_CMAKE_ARGS -DWHISPER_METAL=OFF -DWHISPER_COREML=OFF -DWHISPER_NO_AVX=OFF
-                                      -DWHISPER_NO_AVX2=OFF -DWHISPER_NO_F16C=OFF)
+    set(WHISPER_CPP_HASH "36F39F02F999AAF157EAD3460DD00C8BDAA3D6C4A769A9E4F64E327871B4B11F")
+  elseif($ENV{MACOS_ARCH} STREQUAL "arm64")
+    set(WHISPER_CPP_HASH "6AF7BB904B03B6208B4281D44465B727FB608A32CABD1394B727937C5F4828A1")
   else()
-    set(WHISPER_ADDITIONAL_CMAKE_ARGS -DWHISPER_METAL=OFF -DWHISPER_COREML=OFF -DWHISPER_NO_AVX=ON -DWHISPER_NO_AVX2=ON
-                                      -DWHISPER_NO_F16C=ON -DWHISPER_NO_FMA=ON)
+    message(
+      FATAL_ERROR
+        "The MACOS_ARCH environment variable is not set to a valid value. Please set it to either `x86_64` or `arm64`")
   endif()
-  set(WHISPER_EXTRA_CXX_FLAGS
-      "-Wno-shorten-64-to-32 -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unused-function -Wno-unguarded-availability-new")
-endif()
 
-if(WIN32)
-  if(LOCALVOCAL_WITH_CUDA)
-    # Build with CUDA Check that CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR is set
-    if(NOT DEFINED CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR)
-      message(FATAL_ERROR "CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR is not set. Please set it to the root directory of your CUDA "
-                          "installation, e.g. `C:/Program Files/NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit/CUDA/v11.4`")
-    endif(NOT DEFINED CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR)
-
-    set(WHISPER_ADDITIONAL_ENV "CUDAToolkit_ROOT=${CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR}")
-    set(WHISPER_ADDITIONAL_CMAKE_ARGS -DWHISPER_BLAS=OFF -DWHISPER_CUBLAS=ON -DWHISPER_OPENBLAS=OFF
-                                      -DCMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET=cuda=${CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR})
+  FetchContent_Declare(
+    whispercpp_fetch
+    URL ${WHISPER_CPP_URL}
+    URL_HASH SHA256=${WHISPER_CPP_HASH})
+  FetchContent_MakeAvailable(whispercpp_fetch)
+
+  add_library(Whispercpp::Whisper STATIC IMPORTED)
+  set_target_properties(
+    Whispercpp::Whisper
+    PROPERTIES
+      IMPORTED_LOCATION
+      ${whispercpp_fetch_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/static/${CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_PREFIX}whisper${CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_SUFFIX})
+  set_target_properties(Whispercpp::Whisper PROPERTIES INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES
+                                                       ${whispercpp_fetch_SOURCE_DIR}/include)
+
+elseif(WIN32)
+  if(NOT DEFINED ENV{CPU_OR_CUDA})
+    message(
+      FATAL_ERROR
+        "The CPU_OR_CUDA environment variable is not set. Please set it to either `cpu` or `11.8.0` or `12.2.0`")
+  endif(NOT DEFINED ENV{CPU_OR_CUDA})
+
+  set(CUDA_PREFIX $ENV{CPU_OR_CUDA})
+  if(NOT $ENV{CPU_OR_CUDA} STREQUAL "cpu")
+    set(CUDA_PREFIX "cuda$ENV{CPU_OR_CUDA}")
+  endif()
+
+  set(WHISPER_CPP_URL
+      "https://github.com/occ-ai/occ-ai-dep-whispercpp/releases/download/0.0.1/whispercpp-windows-${CUDA_PREFIX}-0.0.1.zip"
+  )
+  if($ENV{CPU_OR_CUDA} STREQUAL "cpu")
+    set(WHISPER_CPP_HASH "5261FCCD18BA52AE7ECD37617452F0514238FAB4B12713F1FCA491F4ABA170AA")
+  elseif($ENV{CPU_OR_CUDA} STREQUAL "12.2.0")
+    set(WHISPER_CPP_HASH "1966A6C7347FCB9529140F8097AED306F31C6DDE328836FD6498A980E20B8E6C")
+  elseif($ENV{CPU_OR_CUDA} STREQUAL "11.8.0")
+    set(WHISPER_CPP_HASH "172F4021E888A89A694373AE0888C04DB99BC11F3A2633270248E03AF5AC762E")
   else()
-    # Build with OpenBLAS
-    set(OpenBLAS_URL "https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/releases/download/v0.3.24/OpenBLAS-0.3.24-x64.zip")
-    set(OpenBLAS_SHA256 "6335128ee7117ea2dd2f5f96f76dafc17256c85992637189a2d5f6da0c608163")
-    ExternalProject_Add(
-      OpenBLAS
-      URL ${OpenBLAS_URL}
-      URL_HASH SHA256=${OpenBLAS_SHA256}
-      DOWNLOAD_NO_PROGRESS true
-      CONFIGURE_COMMAND ""
-      BUILD_COMMAND ""
-      INSTALL_COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_directory <SOURCE_DIR> <INSTALL_DIR>)
-    ExternalProject_Get_Property(OpenBLAS INSTALL_DIR)
-    set(OpenBLAS_DIR ${INSTALL_DIR})
-    set(WHISPER_ADDITIONAL_ENV "OPENBLAS_PATH=${OpenBLAS_DIR}")
-    set(WHISPER_ADDITIONAL_CMAKE_ARGS -DWHISPER_BLAS=ON -DWHISPER_CUBLAS=OFF)
+    message(
+      FATAL_ERROR
+        "The CPU_OR_CUDA environment variable is not set to a valid value. Please set it to either `cpu` or `11.8.0` or `12.2.0`"
+    )
   endif()
 
-  ExternalProject_Add(
-    Whispercpp_Build
-    DOWNLOAD_EXTRACT_TIMESTAMP true
-    GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp.git
-    GIT_TAG ${Whispercpp_Build_GIT_TAG}
-    BUILD_COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} --build <BINARY_DIR> --config ${Whispercpp_BUILD_TYPE}
-    BUILD_BYPRODUCTS
-      <INSTALL_DIR>/lib/static/${CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_PREFIX}whisper${CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_SUFFIX}
-      <INSTALL_DIR>/bin/${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX}whisper${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX}
-      <INSTALL_DIR>/lib/${CMAKE_IMPORT_LIBRARY_PREFIX}whisper${CMAKE_IMPORT_LIBRARY_SUFFIX}
-    CMAKE_GENERATOR ${CMAKE_GENERATOR}
-    INSTALL_COMMAND
-      ${CMAKE_COMMAND} --install <BINARY_DIR> --config ${Whispercpp_BUILD_TYPE} && ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy
-      <BINARY_DIR>/${Whispercpp_BUILD_TYPE}/whisper.lib <INSTALL_DIR>/lib && ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy
-      <SOURCE_DIR>/ggml.h <INSTALL_DIR>/include
-    CONFIGURE_COMMAND
-      ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E env ${WHISPER_ADDITIONAL_ENV} ${CMAKE_COMMAND} <SOURCE_DIR> -B <BINARY_DIR> -G
-      ${CMAKE_GENERATOR} -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<INSTALL_DIR> -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${Whispercpp_BUILD_TYPE}
-      -DCMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM=${CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM} -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.13
-      -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=${CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES_} -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=${WHISPER_EXTRA_CXX_FLAGS}
-      -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=${WHISPER_EXTRA_CXX_FLAGS} -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DWHISPER_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
-      -DWHISPER_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF ${WHISPER_ADDITIONAL_CMAKE_ARGS})
+  FetchContent_Declare(
+    whispercpp_fetch
+    URL ${WHISPER_CPP_URL}
+    URL_HASH SHA256=${WHISPER_CPP_HASH})
+  FetchContent_MakeAvailable(whispercpp_fetch)
+
+  add_library(Whispercpp::Whisper SHARED IMPORTED)
+  set_target_properties(
+    Whispercpp::Whisper
+    PROPERTIES IMPORTED_LOCATION
+               ${whispercpp_fetch_SOURCE_DIR}/bin/${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX}whisper${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX})
+  set_target_properties(
+    Whispercpp::Whisper
+    PROPERTIES IMPORTED_IMPLIB
+               ${whispercpp_fetch_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/${CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_PREFIX}whisper${CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_SUFFIX})
+  set_target_properties(Whispercpp::Whisper PROPERTIES INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES
+                                                       ${whispercpp_fetch_SOURCE_DIR}/include)
+
+  if($ENV{CPU_OR_CUDA} STREQUAL "cpu")
+    # add openblas to the link line
+    add_library(Whispercpp::OpenBLAS STATIC IMPORTED)
+    set_target_properties(Whispercpp::OpenBLAS PROPERTIES IMPORTED_LOCATION
+                                                          ${whispercpp_fetch_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/libopenblas.dll.a)
+  endif()
+
+  # glob all dlls in the bin directory and install them
+  file(GLOB WHISPER_DLLS ${whispercpp_fetch_SOURCE_DIR}/bin/*.dll)
+  install(FILES ${WHISPER_DLLS} DESTINATION "obs-plugins/64bit")
 
-  if(NOT LOCALVOCAL_WITH_CUDA)
-    add_dependencies(Whispercpp_Build OpenBLAS)
-  endif(NOT LOCALVOCAL_WITH_CUDA)
 else()
+  set(Whispercpp_Build_GIT_TAG "f22d27a385d34b1e544031efe8aa2e3d73922791")
+  set(WHISPER_EXTRA_CXX_FLAGS "-fPIC")
+  set(WHISPER_ADDITIONAL_CMAKE_ARGS -DWHISPER_BLAS=OFF -DWHISPER_CUBLAS=OFF -DWHISPER_OPENBLAS=OFF -DWHISPER_NO_AVX=ON
+                                    -DWHISPER_NO_AVX2=ON)
+
   # On Linux and MacOS build a static Whisper library
   ExternalProject_Add(
     Whispercpp_Build
@@ -107,62 +122,24 @@ else()
       -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=${CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES_} -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=${WHISPER_EXTRA_CXX_FLAGS}
       -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=${WHISPER_EXTRA_CXX_FLAGS} -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DWHISPER_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
       -DWHISPER_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF ${WHISPER_ADDITIONAL_CMAKE_ARGS})
-endif(WIN32)
-
-ExternalProject_Get_Property(Whispercpp_Build INSTALL_DIR)
-
-# add the Whisper library to the link line
-if(WIN32)
-  add_library(Whispercpp::Whisper SHARED IMPORTED)
-  set_target_properties(
-    Whispercpp::Whisper
-    PROPERTIES IMPORTED_LOCATION ${INSTALL_DIR}/bin/${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX}whisper${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX})
-  set_target_properties(
-    Whispercpp::Whisper
-    PROPERTIES IMPORTED_IMPLIB ${INSTALL_DIR}/lib/${CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_PREFIX}whisper${CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_SUFFIX})
 
-  install(FILES ${INSTALL_DIR}/bin/${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX}whisper${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX}
-          DESTINATION "obs-plugins/64bit")
+  ExternalProject_Get_Property(Whispercpp_Build INSTALL_DIR)
 
-  if(NOT LOCALVOCAL_WITH_CUDA)
-    # add openblas to the link line
-    add_library(Whispercpp::OpenBLAS STATIC IMPORTED)
-    set_target_properties(Whispercpp::OpenBLAS PROPERTIES IMPORTED_LOCATION ${OpenBLAS_DIR}/lib/libopenblas.dll.a)
-    install(FILES ${OpenBLAS_DIR}/bin/libopenblas.dll DESTINATION "obs-plugins/64bit")
-  else(NOT LOCALVOCAL_WITH_CUDA)
-    # normalize CUDA path with file(TO_CMAKE_PATH)
-    file(TO_CMAKE_PATH ${CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR} CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR)
-    # find the CUDA DLLs for cuBLAS in the bin directory of the CUDA installation e.g. cublas64_NN.dll
-    file(GLOB CUBLAS_DLLS "${CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR}/bin/cublas64_*.dll")
-    # find cublasLt DLL, e.g. cublasLt64_11.dll
-    file(GLOB CUBLASLT_DLLS "${CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR}/bin/cublasLt64_*.dll")
-    # find cudart DLL, e.g. cudart64_110.dll
-    file(GLOB CUDART_DLLS "${CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR}/bin/cudart64_*.dll")
-    # if any of the files cannot be found, abort
-    if(NOT CUBLAS_DLLS
-       OR NOT CUBLASLT_DLLS
-       OR NOT CUDART_DLLS)
-      message(FATAL_ERROR "Could not find cuBLAS, cuBLASLt or cuDART DLLs in ${CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR}/bin")
-    endif()
-    # copy the DLLs to the OBS plugin directory
-    install(FILES ${CUBLAS_DLLS} ${CUBLASLT_DLLS} ${CUDART_DLLS} DESTINATION "obs-plugins/64bit")
-  endif(NOT LOCALVOCAL_WITH_CUDA)
-else()
   # on Linux and MacOS add the static Whisper library to the link line
   add_library(Whispercpp::Whisper STATIC IMPORTED)
   set_target_properties(
     Whispercpp::Whisper
     PROPERTIES IMPORTED_LOCATION
                ${INSTALL_DIR}/lib/static/${CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_PREFIX}whisper${CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_SUFFIX})
-endif(WIN32)
+  set_target_properties(Whispercpp::Whisper PROPERTIES INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES ${INSTALL_DIR}/include)
+endif()
 
 add_library(Whispercpp INTERFACE)
 add_dependencies(Whispercpp Whispercpp_Build)
 target_link_libraries(Whispercpp INTERFACE Whispercpp::Whisper)
-if(WIN32 AND NOT LOCALVOCAL_WITH_CUDA)
+if(WIN32 AND "$ENV{CPU_OR_CUDA}" STREQUAL "cpu")
   target_link_libraries(Whispercpp INTERFACE Whispercpp::OpenBLAS)
 endif()
-set_target_properties(Whispercpp::Whisper PROPERTIES INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES ${INSTALL_DIR}/include)
 if(APPLE)
   target_link_libraries(Whispercpp INTERFACE "-framework Accelerate")
 endif(APPLE)
diff --git a/cmake/common/buildspec_common.cmake b/cmake/common/buildspec_common.cmake
index d0f43c7..b2c2414 100644
--- a/cmake/common/buildspec_common.cmake
+++ b/cmake/common/buildspec_common.cmake
@@ -73,13 +73,6 @@ function(_setup_obs_studio)
     set(_cmake_version "3.0.0")
   endif()
 
-  message(STATUS "Patch libobs")
-  execute_process(
-    COMMAND patch --forward "libobs/CMakeLists.txt" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/patch_libobs.diff"
-    RESULT_VARIABLE _process_result
-    WORKING_DIRECTORY "${dependencies_dir}/${_obs_destination}")
-  message(STATUS "Patch - done")
-
   message(STATUS "Configure ${label} (${arch})")
   execute_process(
     COMMAND
diff --git a/vendor/curl b/vendor/curl
deleted file mode 160000
index 98044e8..0000000
--- a/vendor/curl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 98044e81705dc24a56daaf3544f30c13f0fc3a31