whisper.cpp High-Performance C/C++ Speech Recognition Engine

whisper.cpp is a lightweight, high-performance C/C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition model. It runs on CPU and GPU across all major platforms with zero dependencies and zero runtime memory allocations.

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• git clone https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp.git
• cmake -B build
• cmake --build build -j --config Release

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• Docker

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• As an example, here is a video of running the model on an iPhone 13 device - fully offline, on-device: whisper.objc

• First clone the repository:

• bash

• Source: https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/HEAD/README.md

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange