Fact · Dictation on Windows
The Whisper README gives choco install ffmpeg as the command for installing ffmpeg on Windows through Chocolatey.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“on Windows using Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/) choco install ffmpeg”
openai/whisper: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision, OpenAI, GitHub (OpenAI repository), 2023, Setup section.
Open the original- What it measures
- Whisper needs the ffmpeg command-line tool to read audio files. The README lists install commands for each platform.
- What it does not show
- Chocolatey itself must be installed first. The command installs the current ffmpeg package, so the version may differ from the one in the README's examples.