whisper.cpp (UNOFFICIAL)

By 林博仁 Buo-ren Lin

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Version1.9.5+pkg-2c58
Revision1084
Size27.7 MB
LicenseMIT
Confinementstrict
Basecore24

Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++


High-performance inference of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model.

Refer to the upstream project website for more info about this application:

 ggerganov/whisper.cpp: Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
 https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp


Distribution-specific information

This is NOT an official distribution of whisper.cpp, please file any issue
regarding the usage of this snap to the snap's own issue tracker:

 Issues · 林博仁 Buo-ren Lin / Unofficial snap packaging for whisper.cpp · GitLab
 https://gitlab.com/brlin/whisper.cpp-snap/-/issues


The following commands are provided by this snap:

  • whisper-cpp.cli: Corresponds to the whisper-cli command, which is the main CLI interface for whisper.cpp.
  • whisper-cpp.download-ggml-model: Upstream utility script to download GGML models for whisper.cpp.
  • whisper-cpp.download-vad-model: Upstream utility script to download VAD models for whisper.cpp.

You may run the following command in a terminal to setup the upstream preferred whisper-cli command:

 sudo snap alias whisper-cpp.cli whisper-cli


This snap only supports Vulkan-based GPU inference at the moment. As
for CPU inference, this snap is currently built against the x86_64
baseline ABI on the amd64 architecture, which is very slow.

Update History

1.9.4+pkg-6f96 (1043) → 1.9.5+pkg-2c58 (1084)
15 Oct 2026, 12:45 UTC
1.9.2+pkg-6f96 (996) → 1.9.4+pkg-6f96 (1043)
18 Sept 2026, 15:45 UTC
1.8.4+pkg-368f (985) → 1.9.2+pkg-6f96 (996)
6 Aug 2026, 12:15 UTC
1.8.3+pkg-5298 (932) → 1.8.4+pkg-368f (985)
31 Mar 2026, 02:49 UTC

Published18 Jul 2024, 10:04 UTC

Last updated13 Oct 2026, 05:21 UTC

First seen13 Dec 2025, 09:47 UTC