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+# Audio samples
+
+This folder contains various audio files used for testing.
+If you want to quickly get some more samples, simply run `make samples`. This will download several public audio files and convert them to appropriate 16-bit WAV format using `ffmpeg`
+
+https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/blob/a09ce6e8899198015729ffc49ae10f67370906b1/Makefile#L104-L123