Obsidian voice recognition with local Whisper model

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Obsidian voice recognition with local Whisper model

Install plugin Whisper for Obsidian

plugin's settings:

• API-key = sk-0
• API-URL = http://127.0.0.1:8000/inference
• language = en
• recording folder = rec
• transcription folder = rec_notes

create folders rec and rec_notes in Obsidian.

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Install Whisper.cpp

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

all binaries for 1.8.1 https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/releases/tag/v1.8.1

direct link for Whisper.cpp binaries windows-cublas (Release v1.8.1, x64, 12.4.0) https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/releases/download/v1.8.1/whisper-cublas-12.4.0-bin-x64.zip

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Download whisper.cpp model

from https://huggingface.co/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/tree/main and put in models folder
in my case - ggml-large-v3-q5_0.bin

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create file start_whisper_server.bat in whisper.cpp folder and start the server

You're awesome!

win11+gpu tested
updated Oct 14 2025

start_whisper_server.bat

@echo on
cd %~dp0
.\whisper-server.exe --convert -pp -debug -l auto -m .\models\ggml-large-v3-q5_0.bin --port 8000
pause

:: use --convert if input file not wav ar 16000 -ac 1 -c:a pcm_s16le

works great! thank you

Works perfect, explained so well bro. Amazing results. Now in Obsidian it is possible to capture any voice from onboard, trancribe it, translate it, ask mistral to reprhase the conent, use styleTTS2 to make a speech again, even more with rvc inferences. All without internet, in a medium budget laptop. This is getting wild.

The api url had to be "http://127.0.0.1:8000/inference" instead of just "127.0.0.1:8000/inference" for me to get this running.

Thanks works great!

The api url had to be "http://127.0.0.1:8000/inference" instead of just "127.0.0.1:8000/inference" for me to get this running.

I also had to edit the batch file to be

.\whisper-server.exe --convert -pp -debug -l auto -m .\models\ggml-large-v3-turbo-q5_0.bin --port 8000

(Instead of just server.exe it was changed to whisper-server.exe on newer versions.)