{"id":1310,"date":"2026-09-17T16:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/engine-whisper-cpp-en\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:58:19","slug":"engine-whisper-cpp-en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/engine-whisper-cpp-en\/","title":{"rendered":"whisper.cpp: Releases and Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"

C\/C++ port of OpenAI’s Whisper speech recognition on ggml. Transcribes at practical speed even on CPU.<\/p>\n

Category: Image, video and audio. Part of our engine and tool tracker<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

At a Glance<\/h2>\n
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Item<\/th>\nValue<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Repository<\/td>\nggml-org\/whisper.cpp<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
License<\/td>\nMIT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Main language<\/td>\nC++<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GitHub stars<\/td>\n53,721 (as of 2026-09-17)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Latest release<\/td>\nv1.9.4<\/a> (2026-09-11)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Install \/ docs<\/td>\nofficial documentation<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

The project describes itself as: \u201cPort of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C\/C++\u201d<\/p>\n

Release History<\/h2>\n

Compiled by Local Model Watch from the project’s GitHub releases. Pre-releases are omitted. Where we wrote an article about a release, it is linked in the last column; smaller releases are tracked here only.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Version<\/th>\nReleased<\/th>\nRelease notes<\/th>\nOur article<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
v1.9.4<\/td>\n2026-09-11<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
b4938<\/td>\n2026-08-20<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.9.2<\/td>\n2026-08-05<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.9.1<\/td>\n2026-06-19<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.9.0<\/td>\n2026-06-17<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.8.7<\/td>\n2026-06-16<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.8.6<\/td>\n2026-06-02<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.8.5<\/td>\n2026-05-29<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.8.4<\/td>\n2026-03-20<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.8.3<\/td>\n2026-01-15<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.8.2<\/td>\n2025-10-15<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.8.1<\/td>\n2025-10-12<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.8.0<\/td>\n2025-10-01<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.7.6<\/td>\n2025-06-25<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.7.5<\/td>\n2025-04-02<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
b2365<\/td>\n2025-04-01<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.7.4<\/td>\n2025-01-06<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.7.3<\/td>\n2024-12-19<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.7.2<\/td>\n2024-11-20<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.7.1<\/td>\n2024-10-07<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.7.0<\/td>\n2024-10-05<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.6.2<\/td>\n2024-05-27<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.6.1<\/td>\n2024-05-22<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.6.0<\/td>\n2024-05-15<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.5.5<\/td>\n2024-04-16<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.5.4<\/td>\n2024-01-06<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.5.3<\/td>\n2024-01-04<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.5.2<\/td>\n2023-12-15<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.5.1<\/td>\n2023-11-24<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.5.0<\/td>\n2023-11-16<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.4.0<\/td>\n2023-05-01<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.3.0<\/td>\n2023-04-15<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.2.1<\/td>\n2023-03-01<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.2.0<\/td>\n2023-02-04<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.1.1<\/td>\n2023-01-24<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v1.0.4<\/td>\n2022-12-18<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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