How to Install OpenAI Whisper with NVIDIA GPU on Ubuntu

Introduction

OpenAI Whisper is a powerful speech-to-text model that can transcribe audio and video in real time. It is also capable of translating languages and generating creative text formats. Whisper is a great tool for anyone who works with audio or video content.

In this guide, we will show you how to install OpenAI Whisper and use it with an NVIDIA GPU on Ubuntu.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, you will need the following:

• An Ubuntu computer with an NVIDIA GPU
• NVIDIA drivers installed
• Python 3.8 or later

Installation

1. Clone the OpenAI Whisper repository

Bash

git clone https://github.com/openai/whisper.git

2. Install the dependencies

Bash

cd whisper
pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Download a model

OpenAI Whisper supports a variety of models. You can find a list of available models on the OpenAI Whisper website. For this example, we will download the base model.

Bash

wget https://storage.googleapis.com/whisper/models/whisper.pt

Running OpenAI Whisper

Now you can run OpenAI Whisper using the following command:

Bash

python whisper/transcribe.py --audio audio.wav --model whisper.pt

This will transcribe the audio file audio.wav and save the results to the file transcript.txt.

Using OpenAI Whisper with GPU

To use OpenAI Whisper with GPU, you will need to use the --device cuda flag. The following code snippet shows how to do this:

Bash

python whisper/transcribe.py --audio audio.wav --model whisper.pt --device cuda

This will transcribe the audio file audio.wav using the GPU and save the results to the file transcript.txt.

Conclusion

OpenAI Whisper is a powerful tool that can transcribe audio and video in real time. By using OpenAI Whisper with GPU, you can take advantage of the increased performance of GPUs to transcribe audio and video even faster.

I hope this guide has been helpful. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment below.

Additional Tips

• You can experiment with different models to see what kind of results you get.
• You can use OpenAI Whisper to transcribe audio and video files, as well as live audio streams.
• OpenAI Whisper is still under development, so there may be some bugs or limitations. Please report any issues you encounter to the OpenAI Whisper developers.