Speech-to-Text app with Offline PC

[DukeComposed]

If you can work out how to download whisper.cpp, then transfer the files onto a completely offline PC that will never see internet, let me know.

Follow the Quick Start in the Readme, it's really not that hard to compile and move it wherever you want.
https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp

Where's the problem?

The problem is that OP isn't bothering to read the READMEs. The whisper.cpp project documentation even claims to offer two different Docker images and pre-built binaries. Putting Docker on the target device may not be an option, but compatible binaries would certainly work. This isn't even hidden in a dark little corner of a wiki somewhere, it's right there in README.md. OP wants a Linux version of the aforementioned Windows port for whisper.cpp? That's whisper.cpp.

[user101]

Follow the Quick Start in the Readme, it's really not that hard to compile and move it wherever you want.
https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp

Where's the problem?

I would like a GUI app. Easy to install. I come from years of Windows use...compiling is not familiar or easy to me.

[user101]

The problem is that OP isn't bothering to read the READMEs.

Correct. I come from too many years with Windows, where I rarely (if ever) read the READMEs too. I didn't read the README for https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper , and yet I was successfully able to run it on the Windows machine I am using now, and can be transferred successfully and easily to other completely offline Windows machines.

[user101]

If these assumptions match, then: https://techaud.io/projects/reaspeech-lite/ ... Check that out even if Reaper isn't already familiar to you beforehand. This is the most streamlined free and offline solution for media transcription purposes I currently know of. It started out as a Docker solution combined with a Reaper Lua script, you can see some of how it came about (and what to expect) in this thread https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=294811 - but that's more like, for background and informational purposes, as this more recent plugin based solution is more straightforward to use. Especially if production software like this is already familiar to you, that is.

This is interesting. What I had in mind was more of a self-contained, single-purpose app, but I never knew about this, so thanks.