Whisper.cpp

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High-performance C/C++ implementation of OpenAI Whisper

Features

• Implements the OpenAI Whisper ASR model in plain C/C++ with no dependencies
• Apple Silicon: optimized with Arm Neon and the Accelerate framework
• Supports the AVX instruction set for x86 and VSX for POWER
• F16/F32 mixed precision
• Low memory usage
• No memory allocation at runtime
• Runs on the CPU
• Supported platforms: MacOS (Intel & ARM), iOS, Android, Linux/FreeBSD, WebAssembly, Windows (MSVC & MinGW), Raspberry Pi

See also

• Whisper
• Cheetah - Open-source AI-powered remote interview assistant
• faster-whisper

Favorite site

• Github - ggerganov/whisper.cpp: Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++