Whisper Cpp Speech Recognition Engine

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name: "whisper.cpp High-Performance C/C++ Speech Recognition Engine"
slug: "whisper-cpp-speech-recognition-engine"
description: "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."
github_stars: 48315
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp"
category: "Media & Transcription"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "ggml-org/whisper.cpp"
  github_stars: 48315
---

# 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:
- [x] [Docker](https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/pkgs/container/whisper.cpp)

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](examples/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](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/whisper-cpp-speech-recognition-engine/)