whisper.cpp (UNOFFICIAL) (whisper-cpp)
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Package name
- whisper-cpp
License
- MIT
Last updated
- 23 September 2026 - latest/stable
- 23 September 2026 - latest/beta
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Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
High-performance inference of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model.
Refer to the upstream project website for more info about this application:
ggerganov/whisper.cpp: Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
Distribution-specific information
This is NOT an official distribution of whisper.cpp, please file any issue regarding the usage of this snap to the snap's own issue tracker:
Issues · 林博仁 Buo-ren Lin / Unofficial snap packaging for whisper.cpp · GitLab
https://gitlab.com/brlin/whisper.cpp-snap/-/issues
The following commands are provided by this snap:
whisper-cpp.cli: Corresponds to thewhisper-clicommand, which is the main CLI interface for whisper.cpp.whisper-cpp.download-ggml-model: Upstream utility script to download GGML models for whisper.cpp.whisper-cpp.download-vad-model: Upstream utility script to download VAD models for whisper.cpp.
You may run the following command in a terminal to setup the upstream preferred whisper-cli command:
sudo snap alias whisper-cpp.cli whisper-cli
This snap only supports Vulkan-based GPU inference at the moment. As for CPU inference, this snap is currently built against the x86_64 baseline ABI on the amd64 architecture, which is very slow.
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