Struggling to get Whisper installed on an M1 Macbook Pro

[jonathanbossenger]

I follow the installation steps for an m1 chip, but when I try to run whisper I get the error:

zsh: command not found: whisper

These are the steps I followed to install whisper:

Ran the commands from the issue to install setuptools_rust and upgrade pip

sudo pip3 install setuptools-rust
sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip

Ran the following command to install whisper

python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git

Installed ffmpeg via homebrew

brew install ffmpeg

I did some digging in the discussions and I did find this thread. So I checked my /Library/Python/3.9/ directory, but it does not have a bin directory. I also checked /Library/Frameworks, but it does not have a Python.framework directory.

I'm thinking whisper is being installed, and it just needs to be added to the system $PATH, but I just have no idea where it's installed, or how to check where it's installed.

[jonathanbossenger]

I managed to get this working by using pyenv

Install pyenv

brew update
brew install pyenv

install python version 3.9.14 (latest) and set it to the global version

pyenv install 3.9.14
pyenv global 3.9.14

test things are installed correctly

python --version

Should output Python 3.9.14

pip --version

Should output something like pip 22.0.4 from /Users/{homeuser}/.pyenv/versions/3.9.14/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip (python 3.9)

Then running pip install git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git installed whisper correctly.

[jsjoeio]

Thank you for documenting this! I had to edit my ~/.zshrc file and add this:

export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"
export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"

eval "$(pyenv init --path)"
eval "$(pyenv init -)"

Then python --version and everything else worked.

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/71646176/3015595

[voidfel]

I am curious, why didn't you just install it through brew? Works fine on Macbook Pro M1 Pro.

brew update
brew install openai-whisper

[jonathanbossenger]

Probably because at the time it wasn't available as a brew formula, and the only setup instructions in the readme used the manual installation method.

[alejaramos]

it worked perfect on my pro M1

[supernacho]

After install brew install openai-whisper the executable is created in /opt/homebrew/bin/whisper

To be recognized by the system:
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH"