Whisper-WebUI

A Gradio-based browser interface for Whisper. You can use it as an Easy Subtitle Generator!

Notebook

If you wish to try this on Colab, you can do it in here!

Feature

• Generate subtitles from various sources, including :
  • Files
  • Youtube
  • Microphone
• Currently supported subtitle formats :
  • SRT
  • WebVTT
• Speech to Text Translation
  • From other languages to English.

Installation and Running

Prerequisite

To run Whisper, you need to have git, python version 3.8 ~ 3.10 and FFmpeg.

Please follow the links below to install the necessary software:

• git : https://git-scm.com/downloads
• python : https://www.python.org/downloads/
• FFmpeg : https://ffmpeg.org/download.html

After installing FFmpeg, make sure to add the FFmpeg/bin folder to your system PATH!

Automatic Installation

If you have satisfied the prerequisites listed above, you are now ready to start Whisper-WebUI.

1. Run Install.bat from Windows Explorer as a regular, non-administrator user.
2. After installation, run the start-webui.bat. (It will automatically download the model if it is not already installed.)
3. Open your web browser and go to http://localhost:7860

( If you're running another Web-UI, it will be hosted on a different port , such as localhost:7861, localhost:7862, and so on )

Available models

The WebUI uses the Open AI Whisper model

Size	Parameters	English-only model	Multilingual model	Required VRAM	Relative speed
tiny	39 M	tiny.en	tiny	~1 GB	~32x
base	74 M	base.en	base	~1 GB	~16x
small	244 M	small.en	small	~2 GB	~6x
medium	769 M	medium.en	medium	~5 GB	~2x
large	1550 M	N/A	large	~10 GB	1x

.en models are for English only, and the cool thing is that you can use the Translate to English option from the "large" models!