On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 at 22:15, Bernhard Döbler <program...@bardware.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > > yesterday, news made the round, that ffmpeg 8 is going to be released, > soon, and it will contain whisper, an AI software that can understand > spoken text and create subtitles. > > Their github page https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp says they > offer a handful of models. > > Model Disk Mem > tiny 75 MiB ~273 MB > base 142 MiB ~388 MB > small 466 MiB ~852 MB > medium 1.5 GiB ~2.1 GB > large 2.9 GiB ~3.9 GB >
There is a commit [1] adding Whisper support [2]. As the docs note you will need to provide a model. > How does this work? Will all of this be compiled into the ffmpeg binary? --enable-whisper config option is added (default: no) [3] so up to whoever compiles your binary and you provide the model. Cheers, Rob [1]: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/13ce36fef98a3f4e6d8360c24d6b8434cbb8869b [2]: https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#whisper-1 [3]: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/47c6af7d299c96b2e65f5f10526e0f34e00b23c8/configure#L339 _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
