whisper.cpp at 54k stars: hours of offline transcription on a normal laptop
alex_verem · x · 2026-10-20
Part two of the 'runs at home' series: local speech to text. whisper.cpp, a C/C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper, turns hours of audio into text on a normal laptop, fully offline — meetings, interviews and voice notes never touch someone else's server. About 54k GitHub stars.
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