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Whisper vs Whisper-WebUI: catalog facts
Whisper	Whisper-WebUI
Free Free and open source, including the model weights.	Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, Linux, Web, Self-hosted
Runs locally, so audio never leaves your machine Transcription, translation to English and language identification	Choice of three Whisper implementations Exports SRT, WebVTT and plain text
Command-line and Python setup, no graphical interface Larger models are slow without a capable GPU	Speaker diarization needs a Hugging Face token and accepted model terms DeepL translation needs an external API key
Downloadable app	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 26, 2026

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