# About

This plugin allows you in conjuction with a _general-purpose speech recognition model_ to transcribe your voice messages to text.

In order to make use of this plugin, you need to have at least one of the following models installed:

#### OpenAI Whisper
- Website: https://github.com/openai/whisper
- Installable by: `pip install -U openai-whisper`

#### Faster Whisper
- Website: https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper
- Installable by: `pip install -U faster_whisper`


# Hint

_**The plugin is very much POC at this stage!**_

Currently a chosen model will be on first downloaded in the background, during which 
Gajim's UI may not respond.

Typical model sizes are in case of OpenAI Whisper:

| Multi Langual Model | Download Size | 
|---------------------|---------------| 
| Tiny                | 70 MB         |
| Base                | 140 MB        | 
| Small               | 460 MB        |
| Medium              | 1.4 GB        | 
| Large               | 2.9 GB        |