license:mit region:us
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license: mit
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# OpenAI's Whisper models converted to ggml format, and encoder converted to OpenVINO IR format.

Each zip package (ggml-*model_name*-models.zip) contains the following:  
ggml-*model_name*.bin  
ggml-*model_name*-encoder-openvino.xml  
ggml-*model_name*-encoder-openvino.bin  


ggml-*model_name*.bin are the OpenAI Whisper models converted to ggml format.  
ggml-*model_name*-openvino.xml/.bin  are the OpenAI Whisper encoder models converted to OpenVINO IR format, using [convert-whisper-to-openvino.py](https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/blob/master/models/convert-whisper-to-openvino.py) conversion script, found in whisper.cpp repo.
