Speech-to-text
whisper.cpp
whisper.cpp is a MIT-licensed speech-to-text engine (terminal/CLI) for Linux · macOS · Windows.
- Category
- Speech-to-text
- License
- MIT
- Operating systems
- Linux · macOS · Windows
- Install
- binary / source / docker
- Interface
- Terminal / CLI
- Model classes
- speech
- Latest version
- v1.9.1
- GitHub stars
- 51,770
As of 2026-07-13 · source · GitHub · homepage
Hardware
High-performance C/C++ Whisper port; supports CPU-only inference; GPU acceleration via CUDA, Metal, ROCm, Vulkan
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