mlx-examples/whisper/README.md
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# whisper
Speech recognition with Whisper in MLX. Whisper is a set of open source speech
recognition models from Open AI, ranging from 39 million to 1.5 billion
parameters[^1].
### Setup
First, install the dependencies.
```
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
Install [`ffmpeg`](https://ffmpeg.org/):
```
# on MacOS using Homebrew (https://brew.sh/)
brew install ffmpeg
```
### Run
Transcribe audio with:
```
import whisper
text = whisper.transcribe(speech_file)["text"]
```
[^1]: Refer to the [arXiv paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04356), [blog post](https://openai.com/research/whisper), and [code](https://github.com/openai/whisper) for more details.