Whisper stuck about whisper HOT 26 OPEN

Hi "Eagerly". Your laptop may not have enough horsepower to run Whisper. How much material do you want to transcribe? If you like, I'll do it for you. No charge. No strings attached. Contact me at [email protected] and we can discuss it.

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Hi, I'm crazy busy at our small library handling a multitude of challenges so my focus has to change on the fly.

I wanted to use Whisper
Whisper Stuck after Moel Request Run as Administrator.docx
as my voice to text so I could us a non-cloud based (downloadable) software.

DNS was great but now too pricey at $800.

I've attached what I see when I try to use Whisper on my Dell Latitude E6540 laptop running W10 with 8GB RAM.

Would you please share your suggestions of how I can correct this?

How can I ascertain the min specs for Whisper?

If my laptop lacks the specs is there another free program besides Whisper for V to T?

Thank you.

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i looked up ur laptop so it's AMD FirePro W4170M which has only 2GB, almost for medium but not quite, try base or small models.

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Hi tigros, thank you so much for checking on my laptop specs! I'm not a programmer so please forgive my ignorance but I'm a little lost with your suggestion of ..."try base or small models." I'm trying to figure out exactly what my next step(s) should be to make Whisper work on this laptop? Or are you intimating Whisper can't really work on this laptop and I need an updated laptop? Thank you again for your kind help.

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I'm not a programmer either and Tigros has been very patient and helpful with me. You can download smaller models here: https://huggingface.co/getwavery/ggml-models/tree/main. The result will not be as accurate, but at least your laptop may be able to run the software.

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Hi Rick.... I'm so grateful for everyone's kind help here on this wonderful forum. Thank you for sharing that link. I visited that site but I'm not sure which of the ones on that list I should try installing and seeing it if works? Sorry for being such a Forest Gump. :)

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Try a few of the medium ones, such as ggml-medium.bin and ggml-small-distil-en.bin. If neither of those work, try the small ones.

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Hi,

you have 4 options on that page:

ggml-base-en.bin
ggml-base.bin
ggml-small-en.bin
ggml-small.bin

don't try to open them in windows, that's useless.

point the desktop GUI to use them.

you're welcome to try Whisperer if you have many files to process.

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I really don't have a grasp on this all. I have no idea how you open these .en files once downloaded on to my laptop's hard drive except to open File Explore and find them on my C drive and click on it. That's how I've installed all my .exe files to run all sorts of open source software. Thank you.

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that's not a .exe nor a .en, it's a .bin, as in binary, it's not executable, just data.

you have file extensions hidden, google how to unhide file extensions, im sure there's videos about it too.

when you run WhisperDesktop.exe it asks for model path, that's where you put the the file you just downloaded, a .bin

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Create a Whisper folder in the Program Files folder on your C drive and copy everything from the zip file into it. It should look something like this:

Then you should be able to click on WhisperDesktop.exe to open it.

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Tigros, today I tried to run Whisper instead of Whisperer, and got an error message, so I wanted to download a fresh version of it, and couldn't find where to do that. Please remind me.

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WhisperDesktop? it's here https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper/releases

no new version since July 22.

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Eagerly, note that when you open Whisper Desktop you will see something like this:

Click the three horizontal dots to the right of the box beneath "Model Path" and choose the ggml file you want to use, either medium or if that doesn't work, small.

Then hit OK and that'll take you to the next dialog box where you can choose the mp3 file you want to transcribe, or you can use the Audio Capture feature:

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What error message are you getting? Keep in mind that you don't "open" the bin file. You link to it from within Whisper or Whisperer. You need to do that or they won't work.

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You might want to try Livewriter:

You can get it here: https://github.com/tigros/livewriter

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You can get it from https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper/releases

I find GitHub confusing too. And Whisper can be tricky to install. If all you want to do is speech to text, I think you'll find Live Writer easier. You can get it here: https://github.com/tigros/livewriter

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To me, DNS means Domain Name Server. Other than that I don't know what you mean. You would download WhisperDesktop.zip. You'll also need to download one of the ggml files here: https://huggingface.co/getwavery/ggml-models/tree/main - base, small, medium, or large, depending on what your computer can handle. The larger the file, the slower it runs, but the more accurate the results. You'll also need to install Python: https://www.python.org/downloads/.

There are people around here who are far more technically astute than I. I'll keep trying to help, but you may run into something that's beyond my minimal expertise.

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As I said earlier, if all you want to do is speech to text, don't bother with Whisper. It's overkill. Install Live Writer. It's easier to install. You can get it here: https://github.com/tigros/livewriter. You'll still need to download one of the ggml files here: https://huggingface.co/getwavery/ggml-models/tree/main - base, small, medium, or large, depending on what your computer can handle.

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