Transcribe audio

whisper.cpp

Open-source C/C++ port of OpenAI Whisper that transcribes audio to text locally, from a CLI or an HTTP server.

Methods

Method	Used for	How
None	Running the CLI or `whisper-server` on your machine	No credentials are defined in the README or the server options

Source3whisper-server README

Getting access

Who creates the account: No account: runs on your machine1
Where to get a key: No key: clone the repository from GitHub1
Other requirements: A C/C++ build toolchain with CMake; a ggml model file; ffmpeg for non-WAV input to the server3

Read from ggml-org’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/transcribe-audio/whisper-cpp.md