This is a stand-alone application that packages OpenAI's Whisper into a distribution that does not require users to have Python installed. Additionally, it provides a minimalistic graphical user interface for transcription.
Please download the zipped distribution from Zenodo and unpack it to a target location of your choice:
- 2024-01-08 Build from zenodo.org, MD5 checksum: d94d38f8db81ea1b9338e152496cc270
Please install by double clicking on the downloaded installer. Running vink.exe (e.g. from your start-up menu) will fire up the graphical user interface, allowing you to specify input and output files, a model and device to run on.
If you want to work with whisper's command line interface instead, you can do so by providing arguments on the command_line:
vink --help
Currently, there is no (working) stand-alone packaging for Linux due to issues in pyinstaller's handling of PySide6. If you are still interested in using the GUI from Ubuntu/Debian, the following sequence of commands will install dependencies and run locally:
sudo apt install ffmpeg python3 python3-pip git
git clone https://github.com/ssciwr/vink.git
cd vink
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python vink.py
The code provided in this project itself is covered by the MIT license. The overall distribution is also licensed under the MIT license. For details about bundled components and their license, please check LICENSE.md.