This project attempts to build a simple Whisper CLI with Rust, to replace the base Python one. It uses whisper.cpp under the hood, making it significantly faster on M1 systems.
You can download the binary corresponding to your OS from the latest release, or build it from scratch by cloning the repo and running cargo build --release.
Put the whisper_cli binary in /usr/local/bin on Unix systems (Mac/Linux) & make sure it has permissions to execute (use chmod +x whisper_cli in terminal.)
Close & Re-open the terminal to test it by typing whisper_cli --help. It should output the following.
```bash $ whisper_cli --help Generate a transcript of an audio file using the Whisper speech-to-text engine. The transcript will be saved as a .txt, .vtt, and .srt file in the same directory as the audio file.
Usage: whisper_cli [OPTIONS]
Arguments:
Options:
-m, --model
[default: medium]
[possible values: tiny.en, tiny, base.en, base, small.en, small, medium.en, medium, large, large-v1]
-l, --lang
[default: auto]
[possible values: auto, en, zh, de, es, ru, ko, fr, ja, pt, tr, pl, ca, nl, ar, sv, it, id, hi, fi, vi, he, uk, el, ms, cs, ro, da, hu, ta, no, th, ur, hr, bg, lt, la, mi, ml, cy, sk, te, fa, lv, bn, sr, az, sl, kn, et, mk, br, eu, is, hy, ne, mn, bs, kk, sq, sw, gl, mr, pa, si, km, sn, yo, so, af, oc, ka, be, tg, sd, gu, am, yi, lo, uz, fo, ht, ps, tk, nn, mt, sa, lb, my, bo, tl, mg, as, tt, haw, ln, ha, ba, jw, su]
-h, --help
Print help information (use -h for a summary)
-V, --version Print version information ```
Make sure you have the latest version of rust installed (use rustup). Then, you can build the project by running cargo build, and run it with cargo run.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.