2 hours ago · Tech · 0 comments

OpenWebUI is a great AI toolbox for personal or family use. They manage to get a pretty user friendly UI set up that can tie into both local and remote AI servers - with some caveats. The support for Speech-To-Text is one such, where the only local support is for their built-in Faster Whisper server, which only allows you to specify which of the models in the Systran repository you want to use.I don’t want to use one of those models. I want to use the one by Kungliga Biblioteket , that will handle both Swedish and English.The solution is to use the huggingface-cli binary and download the repository from KB:$ huggingface-cli download KBLab/kb-whisper-small… then enter the model cache folder in your OpenWebUI installation. I run mine dockerized, and by default it maps the host folder data into /app/backend/data in the container. The Whisper model cache thus ends up at data/cache/whisper/models/ on the host.Move your downloaded model there, and rename it to match the Systran repo name:$…

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