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+# main
+
+This is the main example demonstrating most of the functionality of the Whisper model.
+It can be used as a reference for using the `whisper.cpp` library in other projects.
+
+```
+./main -h
+
+usage: ./main [options] file0.wav file1.wav ...
+
+options:
+  -h,       --help           show this help message and exit
+  -s SEED,  --seed SEED      RNG seed (default: -1)
+  -t N,     --threads N      number of threads to use during computation (default: 4)
+  -o N,     --offset N       offset in milliseconds (default: 0)
+  -v,       --verbose        verbose output
+            --translate      translate from source language to english
+  -otxt,    --output-txt     output result in a text file
+  -ovtt,    --output-vtt     output result in a vtt file
+  -osrt,    --output-srt     output result in a srt file
+  -ps,      --print_special  print special tokens
+  -nt,      --no_timestamps  do not print timestamps
+  -l LANG,  --language LANG  spoken language (default: en)
+  -m FNAME, --model FNAME    model path (default: models/ggml-base.en.bin)
+  -f FNAME, --file FNAME     input WAV file path
+```