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openai/whisper A tool that works on your files

Turn a recording into an .srt subtitle file

  • Open source
  • Runs on your own computer
  • Windows, Mac or Linux
  • Tested 31 Oct 2026

You bring

  • the recording; any format ffmpeg reads, whatever its extension

You get

  • subtitles
What can it reach?
  • The internet. Only the sample: it downloads whisper's own test recording at the pinned commit. Your recording never leaves the machine.
How was it tested?

Run on clean Intel and AMD and Apple silicon and ARM machines on 31 Oct 2026. Its check passed on a known sample and rejected deliberately broken results.

This checks the job this page describes, not every feature of the original project.

Project, licence and recipe files

openai/whisper on GitHub

Licence. MIT

The 4 recipe files

Recipe revision 88827d19cf68, from 86098128c0b4.

Audio and music

Transcribe, separate, clean up and voice your audio.

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