Intalling Whisper AI on a cloud GPU instance

From scratch on Debian gnu/linux 

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/debian12/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install -y mc pip pipx python3 linux-headers-cloud-amd64 cuda cuda-drivers ffmpeg
pipx install openai-whisper
pipx ensurepath
sudo reboot

check that GPU is available 

nvidia-smi

Usage

Check that default device = CUDA 

whisper --help

Speech-to-text 

whisper --language fr INPUT_FILE.mp3