Openai Whisper

Local speech-to-text with the Whisper CLI (no API key).

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Whisper (CLI)

Use whisper to transcribe audio locally.

Requirements

Install the Whisper CLI:

# macOS
brew install openai-whisper

# pip
pip install openai-whisper

Quick start

  • whisper /path/audio.mp3 --model medium --output_format txt --output_dir .
  • whisper /path/audio.m4a --task translate --output_format srt

Notes

  • Models download to ~/.cache/whisper on first run.
  • --model defaults to turbo on this install.
  • Use smaller models for speed, larger for accuracy.

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