whisper-gui 0.2.0

A GUI application for Whisper speech recognition

whisper-gui

Basic GUI for openai-whisper

A simple graphical user interface for OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition system.

Features

• Convert video files to audio
• Transcribe audio files using Whisper
• Support for multiple languages
• Drag & drop support
• Save transcription settings

Installation

1. Install ffmpeg (required for audio conversion):

   # Ubuntu/Debian
   sudo apt install ffmpeg
   
   # macOS
   brew install ffmpeg
   
   # Windows
   # Download from https://ffmpeg.org/download.html or use winget / choco
   winget install ffmpeg
   

2. Install whisper-gui:

   pip install openai-whisper 
   # or pip install git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git 
   pip install PySide6
   pip install whisper-gui
   

Usage

1. Launch the application:

   whisper-gui
   

2. Either:

   • Open a video file and convert it to audio
   • Open an audio file directly

3. Select language and model size

4. Click "Transcribe" to generate text from speech