GitHub - Avi-D-coder/whisper.nvim: local speech to text in Neovim

# macOS
brew install whisper-cpp

# Linux
# Use your distribution's package manager or build from source
# https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

{
  'Avi-D-coder/whisper.nvim',
  config = function()
    require('whisper').setup({
      model = 'base.en',
      keybind = '<C-g>',
      manual_trigger_key = '<Space>',
    })
  end,
  keys = {
    { '<C-g>', mode = {'n', 'i', 'v'}, desc = 'Toggle speech-to-text' }
  },
}

require('whisper').setup({
  -- Binary detection
  binary_path = nil,  -- Auto-detect if nil

  -- Model settings
  model = 'base.en',  -- Options: 'tiny.en', 'base.en', 'small.en', 'medium.en', etc.
  auto_download_model = true,

  -- Keybindings
  keybind = '<C-g>',
  manual_trigger_key = '<Space>',
  modes = {'n', 'i', 'v'},

  -- Whisper parameters
  threads = 8,         -- Number of CPU threads
  step_ms = 20000,     -- Process audio every 20 seconds
  length_ms = 25000,   -- 25 second audio buffer
  vad_thold = 0.60,    -- Voice activity detection threshold (0.0-1.0)
  language = 'en',

  -- Streaming parameters
  enable_streaming = true,
  poll_interval_ms = 20000,     -- Auto-insert every 20 seconds
  filter_markers = true,        -- Remove [BLANK_AUDIO], [MUSIC], etc.

  -- UI settings
  show_whisper_output = false,
  notifications = true,

  -- Debug settings
  debug = false,
  debug_file = '/tmp/whisper-debug.log',
})

step_ms = 20000,  -- Space may take up to 20s to respond

step_ms = 5000,
length_ms = 8000,

step_ms = 3000,
length_ms = 5000,

require('lualine').setup({
  sections = {
    lualine_x = {
      require('whisper').lualine_component,
      'encoding',
      'fileformat',
      'filetype'
    }
  }
})