Yes, the model must be downloaded separately (see my edited comment with bash commands/comments). The model is specified via whisper.exe `--model FNAME` parame

Yes, the model must be downloaded separately (see my edited comment with bash commands/comments). The model is specified via whisper.exe `--model FNAME` parameter. By default, it looks for `models/ggml-base.en.bin`, but even that model must be downloaded separately. So you could do this: # Assumes ggml-large-v3.bin model file[1] was already downloaded to models/ folder whisper.exe --model models/ggml-large-v3.bin out-16kHz.wav [1]: https://huggingface.co/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/blob/main/ggml-large-v3.bin https://huggingface.co/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/blob/main/ggml-...