readme : add Metal info

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@ -11,14 +11,14 @@ Beta: [v1.4.2](https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/releases/tag/v1.4.2) / S
High-performance inference of [OpenAI's Whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper) automatic speech recognition (ASR) model:
- Plain C/C++ implementation without dependencies
- Apple silicon first-class citizen - optimized via ARM NEON, Accelerate framework and [Core ML](https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp#core-ml-support)
- Apple Silicon first-class citizen - optimized via ARM NEON, Accelerate framework, Metal and [Core ML](https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp#core-ml-support)
- AVX intrinsics support for x86 architectures
- VSX intrinsics support for POWER architectures
- Mixed F16 / F32 precision
- [4-bit and 5-bit integer quantization support](https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp#quantization)
- Low memory usage (Flash Attention)
- Zero memory allocations at runtime
- Runs on the CPU
- Support for CPU-only inference
- [Partial GPU support for NVIDIA via cuBLAS](https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp#nvidia-gpu-support-via-cublas)
- [Partial OpenCL GPU support via CLBlast](https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp#opencl-gpu-support-via-clblast)
- [BLAS CPU support via OpenBLAS](https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp#blas-cpu-support-via-openblas)
@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ You can also easily make your own offline voice assistant application: [command]
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1991296/204038393-2f846eae-c255-4099-a76d-5735c25c49da.mp4
On Apply Silicon, the inference runs fully on the GPU via Metal:
https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/assets/1991296/c82e8f86-60dc-49f2-b048-d2fdbd6b5225
Or you can even run it straight in the browser: [talk.wasm](examples/talk.wasm)
## Implementation details