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+## Whisper model files in custom ggml format++The [original Whisper PyTorch models provided by OpenAI](https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/whisper/__init__.py#L17-L27)+have been converted to custom `ggml` format in order to be able to load them in C/C++. The conversion has been performed using the+[convert-pt-to-ggml.py](convert-pt-to-ggml.py) script. You can either obtain the original models and generate the `ggml` files+yourself using the conversion script, or you can use the [download-ggml-model.sh](download-ggml-model.sh) script to download the+already converted models.++Sample usage:++```java+$ ./download-ggml-model.sh base.en+Downloading ggml model base.en ...+models/ggml-base.en.bin 100%[=============================================>] 141.11M 5.41MB/s in 22s +Done! Model 'base.en' saved in 'models/ggml-base.en.bin'+You can now use it like this:++ $ ./main -m models/ggml-base.en.bin -f samples/jfk.wav+```++A third option to obtain the model files is to download them from Hugging Face:++https://huggingface.co/datasets/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/tree/main++## Model files for testing purposes++The model files pefixed with `for-tests-` are empty (i.e. do not contain any weights) and are used by the CI for testing purposes.+They are directly included in this repository for convenience and the Github Actions CI uses them to run various sanitizer tests.
