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WhisperKit

January 30, 2024

WhisperKit

Whisper has pulled the future forward when fast, free and virtually error-free translation and transcription will be ubiquitous. It inspired numerous developers to improve and deploy it with minimal friction and maximum performance.

iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 15 Pro transcribing MKBHD with WhisperKit.
Video not sped up, MKBHD playback at 1.5x because WhisperKit is limited by how fast MKBHD speaks.

We founded Argmax in November 2023 to empower developers and enterprises everywhere to deploy commercial-scale inference workloads on user devices. The fast growing need for Whisper inference in production convinced us to take it on as our first project.

Today, we are excited to open-source the WhisperKit project in beta under MIT license!

Our goal with this beta release is to collect developer feedback and reach a stable release candidate in a matter of weeks so WhisperKit can accelerate the productionization of on-device inference!

If you are interested in…

  • A technical overview: Go ahead and read the rest of this post. Talk to us if you have any feedback.
  • Extending WhisperKit: Fork and send us a pull request! Here is the Contribution Guide .
  • Testing WhisperKit in your App: Add it as a package dependency in Xcode and you are ready to deploy with:

If you are just curious, simply install our sample app and join our Discord to ask questions and get acquainted with the Argmax team!

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