v1.8.4 — whisper-cli macOS arm64 Metal

whisper-cli v1.8.4 — macOS Apple Silicon (arm64)

Built from ggerganov/whisper.cpp @ v1.8.4 with Metal GPU acceleration.

Build flags: -DWHISPER_METAL=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=arm64

What's new in v1.8.4

• 12x Metal GPU performance improvement (from v1.8.3)
• UTF-8 character fix in segment output (affects multilingual transcription)
• VAD timestamp drift fix
• New --device N flag for GPU device selection

Asset

File	Arch	GPU
whisper-cpp-v1.8.4-macos-arm64-metal.zip	arm64 (Apple Silicon)	Metal ✓