whisper.cpp
A C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper speech-to-text model that transcribes audio locally and quickly, including on ordinary CPUs.
- Repository
- ggml-org/whisper.cpp
- Category
- cli
- Last verified
- October 14, 2026
GitHub
- License
- MIT
- Language
- C++
- Last push
- Oct 12, 2026
- Latest release
- v1.9.5 (Oct 6, 2026)
Stats as of Oct 15, 2026
Why it matters
Transcription is one of the few AI tasks that still works well entirely on a CPU — no GPU budget required.
- speech-to-text
- whisper
- cli