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simple-whisper

OpenAI whisper library based on whisper.cpp

9 releases

Uses new Rust 2024

0.1.8 Jan 3, 2026
0.1.7 Sep 2, 2025
0.1.6 Jun 10, 2025
0.1.5 Apr 23, 2025
0.1.1 Jul 5, 2024

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Simple Whisper

Implements the Whisper model via whisper-rs.

Weights are automatically downloaded from Hugging Face.

Feature flags

  • vulkan = enables the Vulkan whisper.cpp backend
  • cuda = enables the Cuda whisper.cpp backend
  • metal = enables the Metal whisper.cpp backend

Other resources

See newfla/simple-whisper for prebuilt cli & server binaries

Dependencies

~28–65MB
~1M SLoC