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Voice2Text

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Voice2Text is a voice-to-text application based on OpenAI Whisper, supporting audio, video, and real-time speech-to-text.

How to Use

Option 1

1. Download the package Voice2Text-pkg.rar and unzip it.
2. Go to the model repository to download the faster-whisper-large-v2 model and place it in the models folder.
3. Double-click run.bat on Windows or run.sh on Linux/Mac to run.
4. If you want to use a GPU, download and install CUDA12 yourself (the same applies to Method 2).

Option 2

1. Clone the repository.

   git clone https://github.com/caiwuu/Voice2Text
   cd ./Voice2Text

2. Create a Python virtual environment.

   conda create -p ./env python==3.11.9
   conda activate ./env

3. Install the dependencies.

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Download the model into the models folder from the repository: https://huggingface.co/Systran. The default model is faster-whisper-large-v2; you can change the model name in the code for other models.

5. Start the application.

   python webUI.py