whisper.cpp/examples/main/README.md

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          [default] show this help message and exit
  -t N,     --threads N     [4      ] number of threads to use during computation
  -p N,     --processors N  [1      ] number of processors to use during computation
  -ot N,    --offset-t N    [0      ] time offset in milliseconds
  -on N,    --offset-n N    [0      ] segment index offset
  -d  N,    --duration N    [0      ] duration of audio to process in milliseconds
  -mc N,    --max-context N [-1     ] maximum number of text context tokens to store
  -ml N,    --max-len N     [0      ] maximum segment length in characters
  -wt N,    --word-thold N  [0.01   ] word timestamp probability threshold
  -su,      --speed-up      [false  ] speed up audio by x2 (reduced accuracy)
  -tr,      --translate     [false  ] translate from source language to english
  -otxt,    --output-txt    [false  ] output result in a text file
  -ovtt,    --output-vtt    [false  ] output result in a vtt file
  -osrt,    --output-srt    [false  ] output result in a srt file
  -owts,    --output-words  [false  ] output script for generating karaoke video
  -ps,      --print-special [false  ] print special tokens
  -pc,      --print-colors  [false  ] print colors
  -nt,      --no-timestamps [true   ] do not print timestamps
  -l LANG,  --language LANG [en     ] spoken language
  -m FNAME, --model FNAME   [models/ggml-base.en.bin] model path
  -f FNAME, --file FNAME    [       ] input WAV file path