Fact · Transcription
The whisper.cpp project shows Whisper running fully offline and on the device on an iPhone 13.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“here is a video of running the model on an iPhone 13 device - fully offline, on-device”
whisper.cpp README, Georgi Gerganov, GitHub, 2026, Introduction, demonstration of whisper.objc.
Open the original- What it measures
- whisper.cpp is a C/C++ port of Whisper that runs the model on the device, with support for CPU-only inference and quantized models. The demonstration is a video of an example app.
- What it does not show
- A demonstration video on one device. It shows that the port can run offline, not how fast it runs on your computer or how accurate a given model is.
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