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+# Purpose
+speech to text command line utility by leveraging off ollama a local speech-to-text model
+
+## Setup
+
+```bash
+# Create the environment with Python 3.10 and CUDA toolkit
+mamba create -n whisper-ollama python=3.10 nvidia/label/cuda-12.2.0::cuda-toolkit cudnn -c nvidia -c conda-forge -y
+
+# Activate the environment
+mamba activate whisper-ollama
+
+# Install Audio and Logic dependencies
+# Note: portaudio is required for sounddevice to work on Linux
+sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libportaudio2 -y
+
+pip install faster-whisper sounddevice numpy pyperclip requests
+```