whisper.cpp is a dependency-free C/C++ port of Whisper that transcribes speech on CPUs, phones and even Raspberry Pi, powering countless local dictation tools.
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git clone https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp.git
- Plain C/C++ implementation without dependencies
- Apple Silicon first-class citizen - optimized via ARM NEON, Accelerate framework, Metal and Core ML
- AVX intrinsics support for x86 architectures
- VSX intrinsics support for POWER architectures
- Mixed F16 / F32 precision
- Integer quantization support
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whisper.cpp has 51.8k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 5.8k times. whisper.cpp is written mainly in C/C++. It has been in active development since 2022. whisper.cpp is available under the MIT license. Its main topics are inference, openai, speech-recognition, speech-to-text.
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Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
Is whisper.cpp open source?
whisper.cpp is an open-source project. It is released under the MIT license.
Is whisper.cpp free?
Yes. whisper.cpp is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.
What license does whisper.cpp use?
whisper.cpp is available under the MIT license.
What language is whisper.cpp written in?
whisper.cpp is written mainly in C/C++.
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