How to test whisper.cpp manually:
- unzip whisper-bin-yyyyy.zzz file based on your platform
- open command prompt or terminal within the unzipped folder and type one of the following command to output the converted text to console/terminal window

windows: whisper-cli -m ../models/ggml-base.en-q8_0.bin -f ../audio/sample.wav -np
linux: ./whisper-cli -m ../models/ggml-base.en-q8_0.bin -f ../audio/sample.wav -np

After the above command has executed, the output should show: Hello, how are you?


Related Links (if you need to explore whisper.cpp further):
Release: https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/releases/tag/v1.9.1
Models:
  https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/tree/master/models
  https://huggingface.co/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/tree/main
  https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/whisper-vad/tree/main
Record stream: https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/blob/master/examples/stream/README.md
