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Installing and Building the Right whisper.cpp

Cloning the Github repository locally
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
Build additional libraries
sudo apt install -y libsdl2-dev
Building whisper-stream

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cd ~/whisper.cpp
rm -rf build
cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DWHISPER_SDL2=ON
cmake --build build --target whisper-stream -- -j2

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