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Download the right model(s)

Download the tiny.en language model 

→ this is the only model that will provide useful results on a Raspberry Pi 500

bash ~/whisper.cpp/models/download-ggml-model.sh tiny.en

Better hardware will support bigger language models. 

What is the difference? 

whisper.cpp provides several different language models. Execute the script ~/whisper.cpp/models/download-ggml-model.sh without parameters to see currently available models: 

mela@Cox:~/meetings/recordings/2026-02-21T013852 $ ~/whisper.cpp/models/download-ggml-model.sh
Usage: /home/mela/whisper.cpp/models/download-ggml-model.sh <model> [models_path]

Available models:
  tiny tiny.en tiny-q5_1 tiny.en-q5_1 tiny-q8_0
  base base.en base-q5_1 base.en-q5_1 base-q8_0
  small small.en small.en-tdrz small-q5_1 small.en-q5_1 small-q8_0
  medium medium.en medium-q5_0 medium.en-q5_0 medium-q8_0
  large-v1 large-v2 large-v2-q5_0 large-v2-q8_0 large-v3 large-v3-q5_0 large-v3-turbo large-v3-turbo-q5_0 large-v3-turbo-q8_0

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.en = english-only -q5_[01] = quantized -tdrz = tinydiarize

Models that only support English are less demanding of resources. Models 

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