Command-line tool

openai-whisper

brew/openai-whisper

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General-purpose speech recognition model

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

pipx install openai_whisper

macOS

brew install openai-whisper
pipx install openai_whisper

Linux

brew install openai-whisper
pipx install openai_whisper

Convert a specific audio file to all of the given file formats

whisper path/to/audio.mp3

Convert an audio file specifying the output format of the converted file

whisper path/to/audio.mp3 --output_format txt

Convert an audio file using a specific model for conversion

whisper path/to/audio.mp3 --model tiny.en,tiny,base.en,base,small.en,small,medium.en,medium,large-v1,large-v2,large

Browse

• Speech to text
• Calling other AI models

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