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Expand Up @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ High-performance inference of [OpenAI's Whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisp
- Mixed F16 / F32 precision
- [4-bit and 5-bit integer quantization support](https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp#quantization)
- Zero memory allocations at runtime
- Vulkan support
- Support for CPU-only inference
- [Efficient GPU support for NVIDIA](https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp#nvidia-gpu-support-via-cublas)
- [OpenVINO Support](https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp#openvino-support)
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GGML_CUDA=1 make -j
```

## Vulkan GPU support
Cross-vendor solution which allows you to accelerate workload on your GPU.
First, make sure your graphics card driver provides support for Vulkan API.

Now build `whisper.cpp` with Vulkan support:
```
make clean
make GGML_VULKAN=1
```

## BLAS CPU support via OpenBLAS

Encoder processing can be accelerated on the CPU via OpenBLAS.
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