whisper.cpp
Open source · Voice and TTS · ggml-org/whisper.cpp
What it does
whisper.cpp runs OpenAI's Whisper speech-to-text model in plain C/C++, without Python. It is light enough for laptops, phones and small boards.
Good for: Offline transcription on modest hardware, or inside your own app.
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- Licence
- MIT (OSI-approved open-source licence)
- Popularity
- Stars: 54,425 (checked 16 Oct 2026)
- Last commit
- 12 Oct 2026
- Open issues and PRs
- 355
- Status
- Active (not archived)
- Self-host
- ModerateBuild from source or use a binding; runs on CPU.
- GitHub topics
- inference
- openai
- speech-recognition
- speech-to-text
- transformer
- whisper
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