How to Run OpenAI Whisper in the Command Line

The article provides a step-by-step guide on how to run the OpenAI Whisper tool on your machine using the command line. It starts with setting up a virtual environment and installing necessary dependencies such as Python, torch, numpy, transformers, tqdm, more-itertools, and ffmpeg-python. The author then demonstrates how to use the tool by transcribing an audio file of Nicholas Tesla's vision of a wireless future. Additionally, it introduces Deepgram's Whisper API endpoint as an alternative for those who want to avoid the complexities of setting up and running OpenAI Whisper locally. The article also highlights that transcript results may vary between runs due to non-deterministic nature of these models.