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Cool, you just might've saved me some carpal tunnel in the long run xD.

I guess there's no way for the AppImage to use GPU compute, right? Not that it matters much because parakeet is fast enough on CPU anyway.



I think the Whisper models will all use GPU. Only the Parakeet model is limited to CPU.

(I'm unfamiliar with AppImage. Was the model included in the app image, or was there a download after selecting the model?)


not sure this might help, but when you launch the .appimage in a terminal, it shows you the command to extract the files it contains (to speed the loading) ; this might help you find the files you're searching for, maybe :)


Whisper uses Vulkan and Metal acceleration with whisper.cpp

Parakeet is currently CPU only




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