Start of Whisper.cpp Delphi Bindings

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Only really been working on the Pascal part of this for about half a week and real work started today (had some partial work done before though).

Wasted a load of time writing Pascal Versions of structs that'll never be used :(

Anyway - my first functioning app looks like this...

Yep, it's just Whisper-Bench with less details (running on CUDA)...

An obvious question people will ask is WHY Pascal? Well, the answer is that Delphi and Lazarus (but Laz version much later) are great at creating cross-platform GUI-based apps. This will run on Win, Mac, Linux (Delphi Enterprise + FMXLinux req), Android and iOS. Lazarus will even allow Raspberry Pi.

e.g. If I did a little work on the Benchmark then it would have charts and show multiple models on many platforms

Repo is here if anyone wants to look - it's extremely Alpha + Basic ATM

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Mac Mini M4 (Basic 256Gb version)

Hmm - Scaleway gave me a voucher for a Mac Mini M2 Pro (lowest version) today. Have to try that before voucher expires for comparison...

Be nice to do after I have some graphs + more models to test

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Linux Ubuntu 24 LTS

This is via WSL on Windows so using my main GPU (4070 Laptop)
Gee - the Encode is a helluva lot faster (will need to double-check some stuff, expecting same or slower)... Odd, second run (pressing button again) has a lot worse encode?

I've got a 10 year old Linux Media server - have to try that as well (no working GPU there though)

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加油 my bro!

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Some new comparison images

Too big to go here...

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And just got Pi5 8Gb working...

Only CPU as Vulkan kills it though :(

Alpha Lazarus Version