whisper

0.4.0

Native R 'torch' Implementation of 'OpenAI' 'Whisper'

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2.6Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Troy HernandezFirst published 2026-02-063 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Speech-to-text transcription using a native R 'torch' implementation of 'OpenAI' 'Whisper' model <https://github.com/openai/whisper>. Supports multiple model sizes from tiny (39M parameters) to large-v3 (1.5B parameters) with integrated download from 'HuggingFace' <https://huggingface.co/> via the 'hfhub' package. Provides automatic speech recognition with optional language detection and translation to English. Audio preprocessing, mel spectrogram computation, and transformer-based encoder-decoder inference are all implemented in R using the 'torch' package.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("whisper")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

pak::pak("cornball-ai/whisper")

Development version from cornball-ai/whisper. Requires the pak package.

Release

# one-time r2u setup for Ubuntu (noble)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash

# then install

sudo apt install r-cran-whisper

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). Run the setup once per machine.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

None

Vignettes

Yes

README

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Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Downloads

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (7)

torch av jsonlite hfhub safetensorsstatsutils

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none

Suggests (1)

tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Reverse dependencies

1direct

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stt.api

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 5,065 (72%)Rd 2,011 (28%)

Test coverage

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Tests / Examples

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Functions

94 16 exported

Complexity

5.3 avg / 36 max

Call network

94 nodes / 138 edges

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Troy Hernandez

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Troy Hernandez

Author, Maintainer

OpenAI

cornball.ai

Release timeline

3 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

0.4.0Latest
2026-06-20 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.0
2026-03-14 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2026-03-10
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-02-06
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
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