📄️ Whisper server setup
The ideal and most performant configuration for running the OpenAI Whisper sample is with Windows with WSL 2 and an NVidia GPU or a Linux desktop system with an NVidia GPU.
📄️ Windows with an NVidia GPU
The recommended configuration for running the OpenAI Whisper sample on Windows is with WSL 2 and an NVidia GPU. This configuration is popular and provides the best performance. The OpenAI Whisper speech to text transcription runs consistently faster on WSL 2 than natively on Windows.
📄️ Ubuntu with an NVidia GPU
The recommended configuration for running the OpenAI Whisper sample on Ubuntu is:
📄️ Systems without an NVidia GPU
The Whisper Transcriber Service runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems without an NVidia GPU, it'll just run slower as the Whisper model run on the CPU.