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Real-time transcription on Raspberry Pi 4 (whisper.cpp discussion #166)
Georgi Gerganov, GitHub, ggml-org/whisper.cpp, 2022
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- What it is
- A pinned discussion by the maintainer of whisper.cpp, a C and C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper model. It gives build steps and two real-time examples that run the tiny English model on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B.
- How much weight it carries
- Written by the project's maintainer and linked from the whisper.cpp README as its Raspberry Pi platform reference. It is a demonstration, not a timed benchmark, it uses a USB camera microphone, and it predates current Whisper releases and Raspberry Pi models.
Facts taken from this source
- In a 2022 post, the whisper.cpp maintainer said the tiny.en Whisper model can run the real-time examples on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B using 3 CPU threads.
“This allows to run the above examples on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (2018) on 3 CPU threads using the tiny.en Whisper model.” (Maintainer's post, More information section)