whisper.cpp/examples/talk/README.md

talk

Talk with an Artificial Intelligence in your terminal

Demo Talk

Web version: examples/talk.wasm

Building

The talk tool depends on SDL2 library to capture audio from the microphone. You can build it like this:

# Install SDL2
# On Debian based linux distributions:
sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev

# On Fedora Linux:
sudo dnf install SDL2 SDL2-devel

# Install SDL2 on Mac OS
brew install sdl2

# Build the "talk" executable
make talk

# Run it
./talk -p Santa

GPT-2

To run this, you will need a ggml GPT-2 model: instructions

Alternatively, you can simply download the smallest ggml GPT-2 117M model (240 MB) like this:

wget --quiet --show-progress -O models/ggml-gpt-2-117M.bin https://huggingface.co/ggerganov/ggml/resolve/main/ggml-model-gpt-2-117M.bin

TTS

For best experience, this example needs a TTS tool to convert the generated text responses to voice. You can use any TTS engine that you would like - simply edit the speak script to your needs. By default, it is configured to use MacOS's say or espeak or Windows SpeechSynthesizer, but you can use whatever you wish.